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U.S. Cited for Human Rights Violations

Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002

Filed under: Political Prisoners, Attorney Client, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Legal Mail, Attorney Visits

U.S. Cited for Human Rights Violations by Gary Hunter On May 15, 2001, at a human rights conference in Geneva, the United States was denounced for its inhumane and discriminatory practices. Amnesty International and the U.N. Committee Against Torture cited the U.S. for oppressive tactics by both public law enforcement …

High Cost of Prison Telephone Calls Goes to Illinois State Court

Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002

Filed under: Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Civil Procedure, State Law Claims, Standing, Telephone Rates, Qualified Immunity

High Cost of Prison Telephone Calls Goes to Illinois State Court by In a characteristically colorful opinion from Judge Richard Posner, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ...

Prison Phone Rate Case Remanded to South Carolina State Court

Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002

Filed under: Civil Procedure, State Law Claims, Venue, Telephone Rates

who have accepted telephone calls from prisoners. Prisoners have no choice of telephone service provider, as DOC contracts for the services. Plaintiffs filed suit under various South Carolina statutes ...

MCI WorldCom Investigated in Georgia for Phone Overcharges; State Senator Involved

Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002

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

MCI WorldCom Investigated in Georgia for Phone Overcharges; State Senator Involved by Lonnie Burton MCI WorldCom owns the exclusive contract to provide phone services to the 45,000 prisoners incarcerated in the State of Georgia. Of course, the prisoners are only allowed to place collect calls, and have no choice on …

Claims Dismissed in First Challenge to BOP Communications Ban

Article • March 15, 2002 • from PLN March, 2002

Filed under: Political Prisoners, Attorney Client, Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Telephones, Telephone Access, Mail Regulations, Ad-Seg Hearings

.Due to Yousef's association with terrorist activities, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) implemented SAMs restricting Yousef's access to mail, telephone, media, and visitors and limited his carrying ...

You're in the Hole: A Crackdown on Dissident Prisoners

Article • February 15, 2002 • from PLN February, 2002

Filed under: Political Prisoners, Attorney Client, Telephones, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls, Mail Regulations, Attorney Visits

. Such silence on Berrigan's part was "most unusual," she says. Convinced that something was wrong, she telephoned the Federal Correctional Institution in Elkton, Ohio, where the seventy-seven-year-old peace ...

No Qualified Immunity for Shackling Prisoner to Hospital Bed

Article • February 15, 2002 • from PLN February, 2002

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Jail Specific, Reading Materials, Attorney Client, Restraints, Court Appearances, Complaints, Appeals, Americans with Disabilities Act, Telephone Access, Qualified Immunity

prisoners access to attorneys, visitors, legal materials, telephones, typewriters, computers, magazines, and recreational activities. The policy also banned personnel from bringing hospital prisoners ...

$522,458 Rebate Ordered in California Prisoner Phone Overcharges

Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Telephones, Telephone Rates, Contractor Liability

contracts to the highest bidder; that is, to the bidder who offers CDC the greatest kickback. These reports state that this kickback amounts to a whopping 4044% of the gross telephone revenue billed ...

California Racial Segregation Case Reversed; Phone Claim Dismissed

Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Civil Procedure, Limitations, Conspiracy (Civil Procedure), Telephone Rates

of Johnson’s telephone conspiracy claims holding that a prisoner’s First Amendment right to telephone access is subject to reasonable limitations and that prisoners are not entitled to a specific telephone rate ...

California Dials Wrong Number

Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Telephones, Telephone Access

California Dials Wrong Number by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely In reaction to bad publicity, lawsuits, and legislative hearings following a record number of fatal shootings of unarmed male prisoners, staged fights, and the sexual abuse and medical neglect of women prisoners, California established the allegedly independent Office of Inspector …

Malicious Use of Force Violates Eighth Amendment

Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001

Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Restraints, Summary Judgment, Telephones, Attorney Calls

Malicious Use of Force Violates Eighth Amendment by John E Dannenberg The Third Circuit held that in claims alleging the malicious use of force by prison guards the wantonness of the attack, rather than the degree of injury suffered, is the dispositive issue for courts reviewing such claims on summary …

Notes From the Unrepenitentiary: Whose Security?

Article • August 15, 2001 • from PLN August, 2001

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Monitoring, Mothers in Prison

: craftwork, cards and, of course, the telephone. Some women even call their children every day to help them with their homework. Others call to make sure the children get off to school on time or get home ...

c.u.r.e. Of Pennsylvania v Pa Public Utility Commission Pa Main App Brief of Petitioner Phone Rates 2001

Brief • 2001

Filed under: Telephones

, a Commonwealth employee who manages the Commonwealth's telephone system, to testity regarding the terms of the contract enforcing the telephone rate structure for inmates housed by the Pennsylvania Department ...

Kentucky Phone Rate Ruling

Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001

Filed under: Injunctions, Telephone Rates, Immunity/Liability, Municipal Liability, Contractor Liability

Kentucky Phone Rate Ruling by A federal district court in Kentucky held that the filed rate doctrine barred any claims for money damages against Phone Company and county jail defendants. However, injunctive relief was still available. The court questioned the legality of an exclusive service provider contract. In the August, …

Ohio 'Entrepreneur' Lands in Hot Water

Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001

Filed under: Crime, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Monitoring

credit card and telephone scam he ran from behind bars. Lonny Lee Bristow, 27, was already serving a 9year 11month sentence at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, OH, for retaliation ...

Work Stoppage at Idaho CCA Prison

Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Organizing, Work Strikes, Grooming Rules, Telephone Rates

to more stringent rules at the new CCA prison south of Boise, including a prohibition on beards and higher telephone call charges. The work-stoppage prompted an immediate response from state prison ...

IL Prison Phone Ruling Published

Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

IL Prison Phone Ruling Published by In the June 2000, issue of PLN we reported that a federal district court in Illinois had dismissed a class action lawsuit challenging the phone rates charged to consumers who accept phone calls from prisoners in Illinois prisons and jails. The court's ruling is …

Judd v. AT&T, WA, Commissioner's Ruling Dismissing Appeal, Phone Rates, 2001

Brief • February 6, 2001

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

) ) ) ) ) Respondents, ) ) ) v. ) AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH ) COMPANY, GTE NORTHWEST, INC.. ) CENTURYTEL TELEPHONE UTILITIES, INC.,) NORTHWEST TELECOMMUNICATIONS, ) INC., d/b/a PTI COMMUNICATIONS. INC., ) U.S ...

Controversy Surrounds Letourneau Tape

Article • December 15, 2000 • from PLN December, 2000

Filed under: DOC/BOP misconduct, Attorney Client, Telephones, Attorney Calls

Controversy Surrounds Letourneau Tape by A Washington DOC investigator allegedly left his job at the state women's prison in Purdy with a souvenir: a tape recording of Mary K. Letourneau talking on the phone with her attorney. After starting a new job at the state Attorney General's office in 1998, …

Alabama Officials Guilty in Phone Scam

Article • December 15, 2000 • from PLN December, 2000

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution, Telephone Rates

of interest while lobbying for the Public Service Commission, Boyett became their cover. Global sold the Alabama state prison contracts in 1993 to People's Telephone Co. in Miami. Ellis told the court that he ...