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Prison Telecom Giant GTL Agrees to $67 Million Settlement in Class-Action Over Inactive Account Seizure Policy
Loaded on April 1, 2022
by Anthony Accurso
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2022, page 32
Filed under:
Settlements,
Seizure of Prisoner Funds,
Telephone Rates,
Global Tel*Link Corp.
Location:
United States of America.
by Anthony W. Accurso
Prison phone services provider Global*Tel Link (GTL) agreed to a settle a long-running class-action on December 20, 2021, with changes to company policies and up to $67 million to compensate customers for seizing funds in any account that remained inactive for 90 days. Though the amount ...
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