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Letter to FCC re Incarcerated People's Communication Services-09-15-2025
Publication • September 15, 2025
Filed under: Telephone Access, HRDC Sign on Letters, Prisoners' Rights, Global Tel*Link Corp
Letter to FCC re Incarcerated People's Communication Services-09-15-2025 September 15, 2025 Chairman Brendan Carr Commissioner Anna Gomez Commissioner Olivia Trusty Federal Communications Commission 50 L Street, NE Washington, DC 20554 Re: Incarcerated People’s Communications Services, WC Docket Nos. 23-62, 12-375 Dear Chairman Carr, Commissioners Gomez and Trusty: The ninety-five undersigned …
HRDC Collaborates on Prison Telecom Cost Report 
to Washington Lawmakers
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Filed under: Electronic Tablets, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates
HRDC Collaborates on Prison Telecom Cost Report to Washington Lawmakers by Chuck Sharman A report on prison telecom costs presented to state lawmakers in Washington on December 13, 2024, showed dramatic decreases nationwide in the price of calls from prisons and jails over the past decade. A similar drop was …
Guards Used “Blast Grenades” to Break Up Mob Attack 
in California Prison
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Filed under: Failure to Protect (General), Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Prisoner Privileges, Telephone Access
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. …
Free Calls in Massachusetts Lead to 
Defunded Prison Programs
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Filed under: Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Private Phone Contractors
Free Calls in Massachusetts Lead to Defunded Prison Programs by In December 2023, Massachusetts became the fifth state to provide free phone calls in its prisons and the first in all local jails. Video calling and e-messaging were also made available at no cost [See: PLN, Mar. 2024, p. 15]. …
Florida County Makes Free Jail Phone Calls Available
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Securus
Florida County Makes Free Jail Phone Calls Available by On October 1, 2023, phone calls became free for some 860 jail detainees at the jail in Florida’s Alachua County, whose Board of Commissioners voted for the change six months earlier. That brought the cost from 21 cents per minute to …
Special Report, Visits and Phone Calls, NJ Office of the Corrections Ombudsperson (April 2024)
Publication • April 1, 2024
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Visiting, Video Visitation
% circled telephone as well as another communication method on the survey form. When asked why telephone access was important to them, survey respondents and individuals at each of the facilities who were ...
Minnesota Prison on Lockdown After Protest Over Dirty Water, Lack of Phone Use and Out-of-Cell Time
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Protests, Exercise, Showers, Water, Lockdowns, Telephone Access
Minnesota Prison on Lockdown After Protest Over Dirty Water, Lack of Phone Use and Out-of-Cell Time by Over Labor Day weekend 2023, approximately 100 prisoners refused to return to their cells at Minnesota Correctional Facility (MCF) in Stillwater. They were protesting limited access to showers, phones and recreation, which the …
Massachusetts Becomes the Fifth State to Make Prison Phone Calls Free
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Private Phone Contractors
Massachusetts Becomes the Fifth State to Make Prison Phone Calls Free by Until December 1, 2023, Massachusetts prisoners and their families paid 12 cents per minute for phone calls, 14 cents in jails, though the first 10 minutes there every month were free. That added up to about $25 million …
Ninth Circuit Revives Challenge by Federal Prisoner in Arizona to BOP’s 300-Minute Monthly Phone Cap
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Filed under: Retaliatory Transfers, Telephone Access
prison subjected him to agency policy that limits prisoners to 300 minutes (5 hours) per month of phone time absent “good cause.” See: BOP Program Statement P5264.08: Inmate Telephone ...
Americans for Immigrant Justice v. US Dept of Homeland Security, DC, Memorandum Opinion, Conditions of Confinement, 2023
Brief • July 6, 2023
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Telephone Access, Detention - Generally
. at *3. AIJ also claims that detainees “must make calls from telephones located in the open housing unit, which are within earshot of other detained individuals and guards;” detainees are not permitted ...
Americans for Immigrant Justice v. US Dept of Homeland Security, DC, Order Granting and Denying Motion to Sever and Transfer Venue, Conditions of Confinement, 2023
Brief • July 6, 2023
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Telephone Access, Detention - Generally
Americans for Immigrant Justice v. US Dept of Homeland Security, DC, Order Granting and Denying Motion to Sever and Transfer Venue, Conditions of Confinement, 2023 Case 1:22-cv-03118-CKK Document 102 Filed 07/06/23 Page 1 of 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE, et al., …
The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Tablet Advertising That Can Also Issue Discipline
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: Telephone Access, Telephone Monitoring, Securus
facility, does not have a trustee account, calling account, prepaid account or other means by which to pay for telephone calls,” Securus writes in the introduction to its patent. “The detainee ...
From the Editor
Article • July 13, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Censorship
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright PLN has been reporting on the prison phone industry for at least the past 30 years, from its inception to its current stranglehold on most means of human contact between prisoners and the outside world. This month’s cover story by Alan …
Githieya v. GTL, GA, Class Action Settlement, Prepaid Telephone Account, 2021
Brief • December 6, 2021
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates
Githieya v. GTL, GA, Class Action Settlement, Prepaid Telephone Account, 2021 Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 326-1 Filed 12/06/21 Page 1 of 81 Exhibit 1 Settlement Agreement Case 1:15-cv-00986 ...
Githieya v. GTL, GA, Declaration of Michael Caplan, Prepaid Telephone Account, 2021
Brief • December 6, 2021
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates
Githieya v. GTL, GA, Declaration of Michael Caplan, Prepaid Telephone Account, 2021 Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 326-2 Filed 12/06/21 Page 1 of 28 Exhibit 2 Declaration of Michael A. Caplan Case ...
Githieya v. GTL, GA, Declaration of Tiffany Janowicz, Prepaid Telephone Account, 2021
Brief • December 6, 2021
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates
Githieya v. GTL, GA, Declaration of Tiffany Janowicz, Prepaid Telephone Account, 2021 Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 326-3 Filed 12/06/21 Page 1 of 57 Exhibit 3 Declaration of Tiffaney Janowicz ...
Githieya v. GTL, GA, Order Approving Class Action Settlement, Prepaid Telephone Accounts, 2021
Brief • December 6, 2021
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates
Githieya v. GTL, GA, Order Approving Class Action Settlement, Prepaid Telephone Accounts, 2021 Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 326 Filed 12/06/21 Page 1 of 50 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ...
Githieya v. GTL, GA, Proposed Order Approving Settlement, Prepaid Telephone Accounts, 2021
Brief • December 6, 2021
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates
Githieya v. GTL, GA, Proposed Order Approving Settlement, Prepaid Telephone Accounts, 2021 Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 326-4 Filed 12/06/21 Page 1 of 15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN ...
Settlement Agreement Between USA and VT Dept of Corrections Under the ADA 2021
Brief • October 28, 2021
Filed under: Deaf Prisoners, Disabled Prisoners, Americans with Disabilities Act, Telephone Access
real-time transcription services (CART); written materials; exchange of written notes; telephone handset amplifiers; assistive listening devices; assistive listening systems; telephones compatible ...
FCC Order Re Reply Comments for Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services, 2021
Brief • October 15, 2021
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates
FCC Order Re Reply Comments for Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services, 2021 Federal Communications Commission DA 21-1297 Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services ) ) ) WC Docket No. 12-375 ORDER Adopted: October 15, 2021 Released: October …
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