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Prison Phone Update: Appellate Court Deals Major Blow to Prisoners and Their Families
Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
Filed under: Money/Property, Telephones, Telephone Rates
Prison Phone Update: Appellate Court Deals Major Blow to Prisoners and Their Families by Carrie Wilkinson by Carrie Wilkinson In a September 2016 article on the fight for comprehensive prison and jail phone reform, PLN reported that while limits on ancillary fees had been implemented by the FCC, intrastate (in-state) …
New York: Disciplinary Segregation Settlement Finalized; $1.6 Million in Attorney Fees Awarded
Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
Filed under: Food, Reading Materials, Education, Telephone Access, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Mental Health
New York: Disciplinary Segregation Settlement Finalized; $1.6 Million in Attorney Fees Awarded by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 31, 2016, U.S. District Court Judge Shira A. Scheindlin granted final approval to a historic settlement between the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) and New York State that will …
From the Editor
Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
Filed under: Medication, Hepatitis, Telephone Rates
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright For the past 30 years, as mass incarceration rates have skyrocketed, so has the number of prisoners infected with hepatitis C (HCV). This is in part because so many prisoners are current or former intravenous drug users, and so much time …
ICE Settles Suit Filed by Immigration Detainees, Pays $405,000 in Attorney Fees
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
Filed under: Appointment of Counsel, Immigration, Attorney Calls
removal proceedings.  “Defendants have violated Plaintiffs’ right to representation of counsel by denying and severely restricting Plaintiffs’ ability to make telephone calls ...
Global Tel*Link Agrees to Pay $8.8 Million in Class-action Settlement
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
rates to maintain communication with their friends and family members, agreed on March 27, 2017 to pay $8.8 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ...
Gangs, Privatization Create “Chaotic” Conditions in Mississippi Prisons
Article • June 5, 2017
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Prison Gangs, Totality of Conditions, Class Certification, Cell Phone Access, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death)
Gangs, Privatization Create “Chaotic” Conditions in Mississippi Prisons by David Reutter By David Reutter Mention prison and most people imagine dark thoughts.  The reasons for those thoughts vary from a fear of losing personal freedom to the images from Hollywood that portray prison as a gladiator school where violence reigns …
Ninth Circuit: Warrantless Probationary Cell Phone Search Unconstitutional
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Filed under: Parole/Probation Searches, Cell Phone Access
Ninth Circuit: Warrantless Probationary Cell Phone Search Unconstitutional by The Ninth Circuit Court of Ap­peals has held that a warrantless, suspicionless search of a probationer’s cell phone violated the Fourth Amendment, and that evidence discovered during the search must be suppressed. Paulo Lara was on probation for a California drug …
Report Says Private Prison Companies Increase Recidivism
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Filed under: Private Prisons, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Telephone Rates, Visiting
Report Says Private Prison Companies Increase Recidivism by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In June 2016, In the Public Interest (ITPI), a non-partisan public policy group, published a report titled “How Private Prison Companies Increase Recidivism,” based upon the fact that for-profit prisons rely upon incarceration to generate revenue – …
California District Court Certifies Immigration Detainee Phone Access Class Action
Article • April 13, 2017
Filed under: Immigration, Telephone Access
of 2013, alleged that DHS and ICE have provided telephone services that are unduly restrictive and expensive, and that the immigrant’s “constitutional and statutory rights are being ...
PLN Interviews CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Interviews, Whistleblowing, Prison Industries, Totality of Conditions, Education, Terrorism, CIA, Telephone Access, Death Penalty, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Visiting, PLN related
PLN Interviews CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou by John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and former counterterrorism consultant. He left the CIA in March 2004, later serving as a senior investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and senior intelligence advisor …
Prison Legal News Interviews CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou - Full Interview
Article • March 29, 2017
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Interviews, Whistleblowing, Prison Industries, Totality of Conditions, Education, Terrorism, CIA, Telephone Access, Death Penalty, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Visiting, PLN related
Prison Legal News Interviews CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou - Full Interview by   Note: This is the full PLN interview with John Kiriakou; a shorter version was published as our April 2017 cover story, here. John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee …
Securus Phone Rates Spark Uprising at Alaska Prison
Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017
Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Prison Rebellion, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates
Securus Phone Rates Spark Uprising at Alaska Prison by Joe Watson A riot at an Alaska prison “kind of blew up” because, according to prisoners, the phone service provided by Securus was shoddy and the company charged unreasonable rates. Sparked by a widespread disconnection of phone calls one Monday night …
Jail Official Convicted of Illegally Recording Phone Conversations Loses Appeal
Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Jail Misconduct, Telephone Monitoring, Guard Unions
Jail Official Convicted of Illegally Recording Phone Conversations Loses Appeal by Christopher Zoukis A former high-ranking official at a New Jersey county jail, convicted on federal charges for illegally listening to and recording the private phone conversations of jail union leaders, has lost his appeal and will remain in federal …
Report Finds Criminal Justice System Financially Overburdens Prisoners and Their Families
Article • December 28, 2016
Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Prison Reform, Statistics/Trends, Cost of Prison Systems, Attorney Fees (PLRA), Filing Fees (PLRA), Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Release and Reentry, Indigent Defense, Filing Fees, Collateral consequences of prison, Bond Fees, Booking Fees, Commissary, Telephone Rates, Family, Racial Profiling
Report Finds Criminal Justice System Financially Overburdens Prisoners and Their Families by Christopher Zoukis The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a nonprofit focused on racial and economic policy, in conjunction with Forward Together and a dozen other community and civil rights organizations recently released a study which surveyed hardships …
Photo of Prisoner Beaten by Georgia Gang Members Posted Online
Article • December 8, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Retaliation for Media Contact, Retaliatory Transfers, Prison Gangs, Failure to Protect (General), Cell Phone Access, Photos, Media, Internet, Juveniles, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Juvenile Prisons
Photo of Prisoner Beaten by Georgia Gang Members Posted Online by Prisons are designed to be closed institutions, cut off from the rest of the world. Contraband cell phones, however, are opening them up and exposing the reality of what happens behind the walls. When Demetria Harris saw a photo …
How Chicago Police Convinced Courts to Let Them Track Cellphones Without a Warrant
Article • November 22, 2016
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Police Searches, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring, Police, Arrest Warrants
in the form of a digital analyzer.” In identical footnotes in each case, a digital analyzer is depicted as nothing more than a simple antenna that detects “signals emitted by the target telephone ...
Video Visitation Companies Try to Stop In-Person Visitation at Texas Jails
Article • November 1, 2016
Filed under: Jail Specific, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Privacy Act, Telephone Monitoring, Video Visitation, Family, Fathers in Prison, Mothers in Prison, Children of Prisoners
Video Visitation Companies Try to Stop In-Person Visitation at Texas Jails by Matthew Clarke In one of the latest attempts to squeeze money out of those least able to afford it, companies that specialize in providing phone and video visitation services to prisoners in Texas jails on a local monopolistic …
Wisconsin Jail Policies Unconstitutional But Not Enjoined
Article • November 1, 2016
Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Notice of Rules, Legality of Rules, Witnesses (Disciplinary Hearings), Hearing Officers, Notice of Charges, Notice of Hearing, Jail Specific, Telephones, Publications/Books, Mail Regulations, Due Process, Censorship
, and telephone procedures were unconstitutional. On January 17, 1973, the district court issued an opinion holding that all but the MCJ telephone policies were unconstitutional. First, the court found ...
NY: Prisoner's Abuse Claim Survives Motion to Dismiss
Article • October 31, 2016
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Eighth Amendment, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements, Telephones, Failure to Train/Supervise, Mental Health, Denial of Religious Services
case, Smith sued because jail officials changed his telephone PIN number without notice. While that case was pending, Smith filed another case against Riker's Island alleging improper religious ...
Eighth Circuit Finds No Constitutional Right to Communicate in Chinese
Article • October 25, 2016
Filed under: Discrimination, Interpreters, Telephones, Mail, Mail Regulations, Due Process, Family
Eighth Circuit Finds No Constitutional Right to Communicate in Chinese by Lonnie Burton On August 15, 2016, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a case filed by a Chinese-born Missouri state prisoner who had his mail to and from China repeatedly rejected by prison officials. …
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