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Guards Used “Blast Grenades” to Break Up Mob Attack in California Prison by On June 6, 2025, Julian Mendez, 46, a prisoner on death row at the Kern Valley State Prison in Riverside County, California, was killed by inmate Mario Renteria, 36, using a makeshift weapon, KGET in Bakersfield reported. …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Los Angeles County Makes Jail Phone Calls Free by On December 1, 2023, phone calls became free for detainees and prisoners in Los Angeles County jails. The county’s Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 on November 22, 2023, to amend the existing phone service contract with ViaPath Technologies—formerly Global Tel*Link (GTL)—to …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
the scope of PUC’s rulemaking beyond “text telephones” for prisoners with hearing-related disabilities to include VoIP (voice over internet protocol) services. When seeking compensation ...
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
FCC Granted Broader Authority to Regulate Prisoner Call Costs by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On March 16, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to begin rule-making to implement the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2022. Named after a determined woman who tirelessly campaigned to lower …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Court of Appeal Makes Its Ruling To begin, the Court noted that the state Supreme Court said in The Ponderosa Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Com., 36 Cal.App.5th 999 (2019), that there is a &ldquo ...
Publication • June 19, 2023
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
communications services serving people with disabilities. As discussed above, IPCS providers providing such services are telephone corporations and public utilities and as such are subject to our jurisdiction ...
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
California Makes Calls Free for State Prisoners and Juvenile Detainees, Prohibits Telecom Kickbacks to Prisons and Jails by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On September 29, 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed S.B. 1008 into law, barring government agencies in the state from collecting any part of the revenue …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
to exceed it for video calls and international telephone calls. In this way, Respondents granted GTL an unfair advantage the California law proscribes.” As the Court determined that a writ of mandate ...
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$900,000 Settlement in Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Securus Recorded California Prisoner-Attorney Calls by David Reutter Company Walks From Similar Case in Maine by David M. Reutter ...
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Filed under: Telephone Rates
California Slashes High Call Rates in Prisons and Jails by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On the heels of a May 2021 decision by federal regulators that sharply lowered rates prisoners and their loved ones pay for interstate calls, the California Public Utilities Commission (CAPUC) adopted a rule on August …
Brief • September 13, 2021
California Public Utilities Commission, Admin Law Judge Ruling Compelling Production of Documents, Inmate Telephone Rates, 2021 MGA/CF1/mef 9/13/2021 FILED 09/13/21 12:14 PM BEFORE THE PUBLIC ...
Brief • September 10, 2021
Filed under: Telephone Rates
- it only meant one 4 rate for domestic telephone calls. No amount of discretion gives the State the ability to change the 5 meaning of the term “rates” and “calls” in the RFP’s NTE rates cap section ...
Brief • September 10, 2021
Filed under: Telephone Rates
- it only meant one 4 rate for domestic telephone calls. No amount of discretion gives the State the ability to change the 5 meaning of the term “rates” and “calls” in the RFP’s NTE rates cap section ...
Brief • September 10, 2021
Filed under: Telephone Rates
with the 25 NTE for video calls and the anticipated increase in video calling utilization that will follow 26 once the State implements video calling full time, GTL was able to reduce its other telephone 27 ...
Brief • September 10, 2021
Filed under: Telephone Rates
state inmates with improved telecommunications, including domestic and international telephone calling as well as calling by video. Page 1 of 10 In August 2020, Respondents solicited bids by way ...
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
San Diego Jail Approves Free Phone and Video Calls by The County of San Diego Board of Supervisors (Board) voted unanimously February 27, 2021 to stop charging prisoners and detainees in county jails and juvenile detention centers for phone calls. The initiative called for the Board to develop a plan …
Publication • August 25, 2021
Filed under: Telephone Rates
the imposition of any other type of ancillary fee or service fee not explicitly approved in this decision. This decision applies to all telephone corporations providing intrastate IPCS in the State of California ...
Richard v. Pfister, IL, Judgment, Discrimination Against Disabled Prisoners, 2021 1:17-cv-04677 ILND 450 (Rev.Case: 10/13) Judgment in a Civil ActionDocument #: 185 Filed: 08/24/21 Page 1 of 1 PageID #:2194 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS Richard, Plaintiff(s), Case No. 1:17-cv-04677 Judge Thomas M. …
my training and experience that cellular telephones are a valued commodity in prison that can also affect the safety and security of the inmates and employees of the institution. I know that CDCR ...
Brief • 2021
Filed under: Telephone Rates
of Incarcerated Telephone Access The Sheriff’s Office’s IWT revenue comes mainly from two sources: adding convenience storelevel mark-ups to commissary items, and the jail phone contract commissions. Incarcerated ...
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