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Discipline Without Notice Violates Due Process; BOP Administrative Exhaustion May Be Excused

Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004

Filed under: Notice of Rules, Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Habeas Corpus, Telephones, Telephone Access

for violation of a rule he had no notice of violates due process. Scott Seehausen, a BOP prisoner confined at FCI-Sheridan telephoned David Reyes-Espinosa, a former member of his prison softball team. Reyes ...

NYPD Commissioner Charged With Stealing $112,733.98 from Jail Prisoner Fund

Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Jail Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution, Telephone Rates

NYPD Commissioner Charged With Stealing $112,733.98 from Jail Prisoner Fund by NYPD Commissioner Charged With Stealing $112,733.98 from Jail Prisoner Fund By Matthew T. Clarke On July 11, 2003, NYPD Deputy Po-lice Commissioner of Community Affairs Fredrick J. Patrick, 38, was arrested on federal charges that he looted close to …

Fighting for Fair Phone Rates

Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Telephone Rates

Fighting for Fair Phone Rates by Deborah M Golden Fighting For Fair Phone Rates by Deborah M. Golden In 2000, a group of prisoners, loved ones of prisoners, and attorneys filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the high cost of collect calls …

Disarray in Colorado: Prisoners Hurt by Host of Problems

Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004

Filed under: Prison Labor, Work Strikes, Crime/Demographics, Prison/Jail Murders, Statistics/Trends, Overcrowding, Staffing, Parole, Telephone Rates, State Legislation

done this to themselves," Gotsch says. Prisoner Phones Effective July 1, 2003, State Senate Bill 03-303 eliminated all Public Utility Commission (PUC) authority to "regulate telephone ...

CCA Closes Oklahoma Prison, Settles Tax Lawsuit Over Ohio Prison

Article • March 15, 2004 • from PLN March, 2004

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Financing, Prison Rebellion, Staffing, Money/Property, Tax Law, Telephone Rates

. According to Bill Clausius, spokesman for the Wisconsin DOC, state law caps prison telephone rates at $1.25 for the connection fee and 22 cents for each additional minute. Sayre is now stuck with the AT&T ...

Fcc Prison Phone Rates Aclu Comments 2004

Brief • March 10, 2004

Filed under: Telephones

Fcc Prison Phone Rates Aclu Comments 2004 Before the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of: Implementation of Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation ...

Fcc Petition on Prison Phone Rates 2004

Brief • March 10, 2004

Filed under: Telephones

, are the last consumers truly captivated by a monopolistic payphone market. In many states in the United States, inmates are subject to telephone rates that are unjust and unreasonable. Persons called by inmates ...

Judd v Att Wa Plt Supp Brief Phone Rates 2004

Brief • January 22, 2004

Filed under: Telephones

situated persons, Petitioners, v. GTE NORTHWEST INC.; CENTURYTEL TELEPHONE UTILITIES, INC.; NORTHWEST TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC., d/b/a PTI COMMUNICATIONS, INC.; and U.S. WEST COMMUNICATIONS, INC ...

Judd v Att Wa Petitioners Supplemental Brief Phone Rates 2004

Brief • January 22, 2004

Filed under: Telephones

of all similarly situated persons, Petitioners, v. GTE NORTHWEST INC.; CENTURYTEL TELEPHONE UTILITIES, INC.; NORTHWEST TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC., d/b/a PTI COMMUNICATIONS, INC.; and U.S. WEST ...

Administrative Exhaustion Required in Pre-PLRA BOP Phone Suit

Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004

Filed under: Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Settlements, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

of Prisons (BOP), including telephone access and rates and billing of prisoners and their families. The consolidated cases, Washington v. Reno, US DC D KY, Civil Action Nos. 93-217 and 93-290, were settled ...

Scandal-Ridden, Bankrupt MCI WorldCom Wins No-Bid California Prisoner Phone Contract

Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Telephone Rates

by the California Department of General Services to MCI WorldCom, a telephone conglomerate whose recent bankruptcy exposed the largest accounting fraud in US business history - $11 billion. The non-competitive award ...

Nebraska Prisons Get Progressive Phone Contract

Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

digital telephone technology cost up to five international units a minute. The prisoner phone system has digital switching with sophisticated security features. All calls are digitally recorded ...

Secretly Recorded California Jail Phone Conversations May Be Used to Convict

Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003

Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring

of arson and two counts of first degree murder. Unbeknownst to her, while awaiting trial in county jail, her telephone conversations with non-attorney visitors were recorded - at the request of the district ...

New Mexico Supreme court Affirms Dismissal of Phone Rate Suit

Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003

Filed under: Mootness, Telephone Rates, Immunity/Liability, Sovereign Immunity, State Legislation

dismissal of an excessive phone rates case for failure to state a claim. Recipients of collect telephone calls from New Mexico jails and prisons brought suit for damages and injunctive relief against state ...

San Mateo County Sues California Jail Phone Service Providers

Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Telephone Rates

San Mateo County Sues California Jail Phone Service Providers by San Mateo County Sues California Jail Phone Service Providers On July 7, 2002, the county of San Mateo, California, brought suit against Pacific Bell and AT&T alleging they cheated the county out of millions of dollars earmarked for a fund …

Judd v Att Wa Petition for Review Phone Rates 2003

Brief • May 14, 2003

Filed under: Telephones

80.36.510, .520 and .530 provide a cause of action, and have plaintiffs stated a claim, for violation of the Consumer Protection Act, based on defendants' failure to disclose telephone rates? (2) Must ...

Acrimonious Michigan Prisoners' Rights Suit Settled After 15 Years

Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004

Filed under: Clothing, Judiciary, Prisoner Legal Assistance, Law Library Access/Adequacy, Writing Implements, Photocopies, Administrative Exhaustion, Prisoner Property, Telephones, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls, Legal Mail, Attorney Visits

Acrimonious Michigan Prisoners' Rights Suit Settled After 15 Years by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A class-action lawsuit launched by Michigan state prisoners in 1988 which ultimately cost taxpayers $7.5 million in litigation costs was settled on November 4, 2003, resulting in prisoners gaining appropriate classification and psychiatric …

New Mexico Lawyers Entitled to Jail Visiting, Phone and Records Access

Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004

Filed under: Attorney Client, Settlements, Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Discovery, Attorney Calls, Mental Health, Attorney Visits

prohibiting class counsel from having access to the jail, its prisoners and staff, its records, and from imposing time limits on telephone calls to lawyers by prisoners. This is a class action suit ...

Virginia Law Repeals Phone Rate Ruling

Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, State Legislation

on prison phone rates by the State Corporation Commission (SCC). Robert Lee Jones, a Virginia state prisoner, filed a complaint with the SCC concerning the rates charged consumers for collect telephone ...

Prisoner Phone Recordings not Exempt from FOIA Disclosure

Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003

Filed under: Attorney Misconduct, Freedom of Information Act, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

§2510(5) this latter phrase is defined as specifically excluding telephones being used by law enforcement (including prison authorities). Thus while the law includes specific equipment related ...