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Global Tel*Link Hit with Sanctions For Discovery Violations in Georgia Prison Call Class Action

Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021

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

wished to communicate by telephone with an incarcerated person to first deposit money in a GTL account, from which the cost of each call was deducted. However, as noted by the judge in the Georgia ...

CoreCivic and Securus Technologies Agree to Pay $3.7 Million to Settle Suit for Illegally Recording Attorney-Client Conversations

Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Settlements, Telephones, Contractor Liability, Breach of Contract

in Maryland that operates state and federal prisons, jails and detention facilities, including the LDC. Securus Technologies is a private corporation that provides telephonic communication and recording ...

NBA Owner Capitalizes on Mass Incarceration; Players Silent

Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020

Filed under: JPay, Inc., Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Telephone Rates

billion under management. One of the companies in Platinum Equity’s portfolio is Aventiv, one of the largest companies providing telephone and money transfer services to prisoners. Operating under ...

Cost of Communicating with Prisoners Breaking Family Budgets During Pandemic

Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020

Filed under: COVID-19, Telephone Rates

Cost of Communicating with Prisoners Breaking Family Budgets During Pandemic by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For those with loved ones in prisons, the coronavirus pandemic has increased the desire for communication to ensure the well-being of the imprisoned. The exorbitant cost of such calls is straining already-stretched budgets. …

Federal Judge Approves $25 Million Class Action Settlement Against Global Tel*Link

Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020

Filed under: Private Prisons, Telephone Rates, Class Actions

telephone calls through the company from New Jersey prisoners before June 2010 or in Essex County, N.J., before June 2011, would be able to file claims. GTL also had been heavily criticized for requiring ...

Massachusetts Jail Phone Cost Reductions Under Attack

Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020

Filed under: Telephone Rates

Evangelidis’ jail holds mental health, education, substance abuse and music programs. These programs are funded through telephone revenue “commissions” paid to Cocchi by ICSolutions ...

$225,000 Windfall in Lehigh County, Pa. But Officials Don’t Cut Jail Phone Costs

Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020

Filed under: COVID-19, Telephone Rates

$225,000 Windfall in Lehigh County, Pa. But Officials Don’t Cut Jail Phone Costs by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Renegotiation of its jail telephone contract netted Pennsylvania’s ...

CA Public Utilities Commission, order instituting rulemaking, just phone rates for prisoners, 2020

Brief • October 19, 2020

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, First Amendment, rights

and their families have access to intrastate telecommunication service at just and reasonable rates. To that end, the Commission will consider whether it should exercise its jurisdiction over the telephone ...

Federal Trade Commission v. Disruption Theory, et al., CA, complaint, deceptive calling plans, 2020

Brief • October 5, 2020

Filed under: Telephones, Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA)

Federal Trade Commission v. Disruption Theory, et al., CA, complaint, deceptive calling plans, 2020 FILED Case 3:20-cv-06919-VC Document 1 Filed 10/05/20 Page 1 of 15 Oct 05 2020 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ALDEN F. ABBOTT General Counsel SUSANY. SOONG CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT …

Letter to Governors Cuomo and Hutchinson Regarding Affordable Prison Communication Services

Publication • September 22, 2020

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

Letter to Governors Cuomo and Hutchinson Regarding Affordable Prison Communication Services September 22, 2020 The Honorable Andrew Cuomo Governor of the State of New York and Chair of the National Governor’s Association The Honorable Asa Hutchinson Governor of the State of Arkansas and Vice Chair of the National Governor’s Association …

San Francisco Eliminates Fees on Jail Phone Calls

Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020

Filed under: Commissary, Telephone Rates

’s unanimous July 14, 2020 vote to end jail telephone call and commissary fees. Before this, California law authorized counties to charge prisoners for telephone calls and jail commissary items ...

Dallas County, Texas Jails Finally Enter the 21st Century on Phone Rates

Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020

Filed under: Telephone Rates

Dallas County, Texas Jails Finally Enter the 21st Century on Phone Rates by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Until February 18, 2020, it cost pre- and post-trial detainees in the Dallas County, Texas jails .24¢ per minute to speak to their families on the phone. Urged by criminal justice reform …

FCC In the Matter of Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services

Brief • September 1, 2020

Filed under: Telephone Rates

on their websites, undercutting any claim of confidentiality.22 Other providers that (Continued from previous page) Apr. 1, 2020) (Tab II. ICS Rates) (ATN Annual Report). Crown Correctional Telephone did not report ...

FCC Public Notice Re Acquisition of Legacy Inmate Communications by Global Tel Link 2020

Publication • August 27, 2020

Filed under: Telephones

FCC Public Notice Re Acquisition of Legacy Inmate Communications by Global Tel Link 2020 PUBLIC NOTICE Federal Communications Commission 445 12th St., S.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 News Media Information 202 / 418-0500 Internet: https://www.fcc.gov TTY: 1-888-835-5322 DA 20-965 August 27, 2020 APPLICATIONS FILED FOR THE ACQUISITION OF CERTAIN ASSETS OF …

Families Accuse Arkansas Prison of Poor Communication on COVID-19 Prisoners

Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020

Filed under: Medical Records, COVID-19, Telephone Access

Families Accuse Arkansas Prison of Poor Communication on COVID-19 Prisoners by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Arkansas’ Cummins Unit prison facility had 11 confirmed deaths due to coronavirus as of June 9, 2020. Families were concerned over a lack of communication and delayed notification from the Arkansas Department of Corrections …

Agreement between the City and County of San Francisco and Global Tel*Link

Publication • August 1, 2020

Filed under: Telephone Rates

. (b) The following information is required to sign up: (i) The enroller must be their company's authorized financial representative, (ii) the company's legal name, main telephone number and all physical ...

HRDC FCC Comments

Publication • July 31, 2020

Filed under: Telephones, HRDC Publications

reported that 34% of families of prisoners go into debt because of the costs of telephone calls. vi According to the FCC’s own report, studies have shown that prisoners who P.O. Box 1151 Lake Worth, FL 33460 ...

Quarantine Fatigue vs. Escalating Prison Lockdowns (During COVID-19 & Black Lives Matter Protests)

Article • July 30, 2020

Filed under: Telephone Rates, Fathers in Prison, Children of Prisoners

Quarantine Fatigue vs. Escalating Prison Lockdowns (During COVID-19 & Black Lives Matter Protests) by Ava Martoma KidsMates, Inc. Blog Post By Ava Martoma, Age 13 Like much of America, I’m feeling quarantine fatigue. On the upside, I’ve had a lot of time to reflect on … well, everything. Lately, George …

California Court of Appeal Upholds Dismissal of Challenge to Excessive Jail Phone Rates as Unconstitutional Tax

Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020

Filed under: Telephone Rates

of appeal noted that “the general rule is that a person may not sue to recover excess taxes paid by someone else. Plaintiffs may have paid exorbitant charges to the telephone provider, but they did ...

Albert, et al. v. Global Tel*Link Corp., Securus Technologies, 3Cinteractive Corp., MD, class action complaint, prison phone calls, 2020

Filing • June 29, 2020

Filed under: Complaints, Telephone Rates

in a prison or jail in the United States. I. INTRODUCTION 1. This case concerns a scheme by the Defendants—including the nation’s two largest providers of telephone calling services for inmates—to fix ...