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$900,000 Settlement in Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Securus Recorded California Prisoner-Attorney Calls
Loaded on Feb. 1, 2022
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2022, page 36
Filed under:
Settlements,
Attorney Calls,
Telephone Monitoring,
Class Actions.
Location:
California.
Company Walks From Similar Case in Maine
by David M. Reutter
In November 2021, a year after a federal district court in California approved a $900,000 settlement in a class-action lawsuit alleging Securus Technologies, Inc. unlawfully recorded privileged calls between detainees and attorneys, the prison phone giant was still fighting …
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