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Illinois DOC - Securus Contract 2018-2021

Kickback publication • October 18, 2018

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

/1M persons and DHS residents to communicate with non-incarcerated civilians, the provide, install, and maintain all telephone equipment, customer services, and for prepaid minutes at no cost ...

Michigan Rates February 2014

Kickback publication • October 11, 2018

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

, with their debit account. For any questions regarding these calling options, please call PCS at 855-466-2832. PCS - Prisoner Telephone Rates Prisoner telephone rates are outlined in the table below (Effective ...

Dept. of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General - ICE's Inspections and Monitoring of Detention Facilities Do Not Lead to Sustained Compliance or Systemic Improvements, 2018

Publication • June 26, 2018

Filed under: Strip Searches, Conditions of Confinement, Staffing, Exercise, Attorney Client, Immigration, Telephone Access, Mail, Staff Training

, age, medical history, and the detainee’s country of origin. ODO used the DHS language telephone line for translation and interviewed some detainees in Spanish and other languages. ODO teams discussed ...

Innovation Law Lab, Et Al. v. Nielsen, Et Al., OR, Order, Denied Immigration Lawyers, 2018

Brief • June 25, 2018

Filed under: Appointment of Counsel, Attorney Client, Immigration, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls, Attorney Visits, Fifth Amendment

, to facilitate the attorney’s consultation with a detainee who does not speak English by calling a telephone-accessible interpreter or interpretation service. Attorney calls may not be monitored, after Defendants ...

Washington DOC - JPay Amendment #8 2018-2019

Kickback publication • 2018

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

Washington DOC - JPay Amendment #8 2018-2019 State of Washington Department of Corrections This Amendment Contract No. K8262 Amendment No. 8 is made by the state of Washington, Department of Corrections, hereinafter referred to as Department, and JPay, Inc., hereinafter referred to as the Contractor, for the purpose of amending …

TKC Holdings Inc. v. Securus Technologies Inc., NY, petition to transfer control of inmate calling solutions, 2018

Brief • May 17, 2018

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access

as a reseller of telephone service, without authority to provide local exchange service pursuant to a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity issued by the Commission in Case No. 03-C-1411 on January 29 ...

NY petition for approval to transfer control of Inmate Calling Solutions, LLC d/b/a ICSolutions to Securus Technologies, Inc., 2018

Publication • May 17, 2018

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

is authorized to operate as a reseller of telephone service, without authority to provide local exchange service pursuant to a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity issued by the Commission in Case ...

NY DOCCS Rates as of May 2018

Kickback publication • May 15, 2018

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

the inmate telephone system at each state operated facility at a reduced rate. Those wishing to accept calls from incarcerated individuals in NYS Correctional Facilities are required to have an account ...

Pearson et. al. v. Hodgson and Securus Technologies Inc., phone kickback scheme complaint, 2018

Brief • May 2, 2018

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Attorney Calls, Mental Health, Family

. The Plaintiffs seek to end an illegal kickback scheme orchestrated by the Defendants that has nearly doubled the cost of telephone calls made from Bristol County correctional facilities - causing harm to prisoners ...

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Brief • April 30, 2018

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates

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The Prison Industrial Complex: Mapping Private Sector Players

Publication • April 23, 2018

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, JPay, Inc., G4S/Group 4, Prison Labor, Private Contractors, Medical Records, Ambulance Service, Food, Electronic Monitoring, Arrest and Booking, Security Systems, Money/Property, Telephone Access, Guards/Staff, Staff Training, FISA-Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

The Prison Industrial Complex: Mapping Private Sector Players APRIL 2018 | 1 About the Corrections Accountability Project The Corrections Accountability Project (CAP) at the Urban Justice Center is a non-profit criminal justice advocacy organization committed to eliminating the influence of commercial interests on the criminal legal system and ending the …

Benson v. Meisner, WI, Complaint, Revealing Prison Informant, 2018

Brief • April 6, 2018

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Retaliation for Filing Grievances, False Charges (Disciplinary Hearings), Failure to Protect (General), Eighth Amendment, Telephone Access, First Amendment, rights

Benson v. Meisner, WI, Complaint, Revealing Prison Informant, 2018 Case 2:18-cv-00538-DEJ Filed 04/06/18 Page 1 of 12 Document 1 Case 2:18-cv-00538-DEJ Filed 04/06/18 Page 2 of 12 Document 1 Case 2:18-cv-00538-DEJ Filed 04/06/18 Page 3 of 12 Document 1 Case 2:18-cv-00538-DEJ Filed 04/06/18 Page 4 of 12 Document 1 Case …

Tablets and E-messaging Services Expand in Prisons and Jails, as do Fees

Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018

Filed under: Computers, Telephone Access

Tablets and E-messaging Services Expand in Prisons and Jails, as do Fees by Matthew Clarke, Edward Lyon by Matt Clarke and Ed Lyon Global Tel*Link (GTL), one of the largest prison and jail phone service providers in the United States, has steadily expanded into other services that target corrections agencies. …

Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Deaf Former Prisoner’s ADA Claims

Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018

Filed under: Deaf Prisoners, Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act, Interpreters, Telephone Access

Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Deaf Former Prisoner’s ADA Claims by Jail officials “may not turn a blind eye to a deaf ear,” the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit fittingly declared in an August 31, 2017 ruling that reversed a summary judgment order in a lawsuit filed by …

Porter v. Clarke, VA, Opinion, Death Row Conditions, 2018

Brief • February 21, 2018

Filed under: Eighth Amendment, Exercise, Telephone Access, Death Penalty/Death Row, Mental Health, Fourteenth Amendment, rights

contact visitation, which the warden had the discretion to grant or deny. Id. ¶ 51.5 Plaintiffs also had access to wireless telephones that could be brought to their cell and used any day of the week ...

Sufficient Facts for Discrimination Hearing

Article • February 8, 2018

Filed under: Deaf Prisoners, Conditions of Confinement, Americans with Disabilities Act, Telephone Access

Sufficient Facts for Discrimination Hearing by David Reutter by David Reutter A Colorado federal district court held that deaf prisoners and prisoners in contact with deaf persons alleged sufficient facts to survive dismissal of the Americans with Disabilities Act claim. The court said the prison’s archaic, faulty communication system for …

T-Mobile Contraband Study

Publication • February 2, 2018

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Monitoring, Cell Phone Access

T-Mobile Contraband Study 601 Pennsylvania Ave, NW North Building, Suite 800 Washington DC, 20004 February 2, 2018 VIA ELECTRONIC FILING Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, SW Washington, DC 20554 Re: Promoting Technical Solutions to Combat Contraband Wireless Device Use in Correctional Facilities, GN Docket No. …

HI DPS - GTL Announcement - Effective 2-1-2018

Kickback publication • February 1, 2018

Filed under: Organizing, Telephone Access

otherwise be blocked are now completed through GTL’s AdvancePay program. AdvancePay is a prepaid collect calling service that allows calls from an inmate in a correctional facility to your telephone number ...

French Officials to Install Phones in 50,000 Prison Cells

Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018

Filed under: Prison Reform, Telephone Access

, on January 2, 2018, French officials opened the bidding process for a telecom provider to install landline telephones in each of 50,000 cells in 178 prisons. The justice ministry said the program was being ...

State Bar of Texas Legal Services to the Poor in Criminal Matters Committee: Review of the Operations of State Counsel for Offenders, 2017

Publication • December 8, 2017

Filed under: Failure to Protect (General), Attorneys, Attorney Client, Public Defenders, Prosecutors, Court Access, Prisoner Legal Assistance, Indigent Defense, Money/Property, Telephones, Telephone Access, Attorney Visits, Failure to Protect (Staff), Staff Training

State Bar of Texas Legal Services to the Poor in Criminal Matters Committee: Review of the Operations of State Counsel for Offenders, 2017 Review of the Operations of State Counsel for Offenders Report by the State Bar of Texas Legal Services to the Poor in Criminal Matters Committee1 Approved for …