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Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
Arkansas Bans Outside Reading Material Sent to Prisons by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Knott In a move that further isolates prisoners from the outside world, the Arkansas Board of Corrections (BOC) voted unanimously on December 19, 2025, to ban all externally purchased books, magazines, and newspapers sent directly …
Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
Cuyahoga County Receives Over $846,000 Refund from Securus Technologies by In 2016, prison communications profiteer Securus Technologies offered to implement XJail, a jail management system, at the Cuyahoga County Jail in Cleveland, Ohio. Despite the system’s promise to publicly display booking information, charges, bond amounts, and mugshots, Securus never installed …
Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
Eleventh Circuit Holds Alabama County May Be Liable for Policy of Providing Inadequate Jail Medical Care by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 20, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that an Alabama law making sheriffs responsible for jail prisoners’ health care did …
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
An AI Model from Securus Aims to Expand Phone Call Monitoring by In 2023, prison telecom company Securus Technologies began building AI tools using its expansive database of prisoners’ recorded phone calls. The idea was to create an AI model that could not only monitor live prison phone calls but …
FCC Votes For Dramatic Hike to Prison Phone Call Rates by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Backtracking from new rules passed just a year ago that would have lowered phone call rates in prisons and jails to $0.06 to $0.12 per minute, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on October …
Securus Loses Bid to Dismiss HRDC Price-Fixing Suit by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On June 11, 2025, Securus Technologies was denied a motion to dismiss claims filed against the prison telecom giant and its JPay subsidiary, alleging they colluded with competitor Global*Tel Link (GTL), now known as ViaPath Technologies, …
Albert v. GLOBAL TELLINK CORP, MD, Memorandum Opinion, Telephone Rates, 2025 Case 8:20-cv-01936-LKG Document 487 Filed 10/15/25 Page 1 of 7 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND ASHLEY ALBERT, et al., Plaintiffs, v. GLOBAL TEL*LINK CORP., et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
FCC Backtracks on 2024 Order to Cut Prison Phone and Video Rates by Half by On June 30, the Federal Communications Commission announced a two-year postponement of a rule to lower the price of phone and video calls in prisons and jails. As PLN reported, the FCC voted in 2024 …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
JPay Loses Bid to Revoke Class Certification in Washington Prisoners’ Challenge to Crummy Products and Service by Over five years ago, in May 2020, Washington prisoners Michael Linear and Lonnie Burton filed a complaint in state court against prison telecom JPay LLC, which held the exclusive contract with the state …
Albert v. Global Tellink Corp, MD, Memorandum Opinion and Order, Telephone Rates, 2025 Case 8:20-cv-01936-LKG Document 439 Filed 06/13/25 Page 1 of 17 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND (SOUTHERN DIVISION) Ashley Albert, et al., * Plaintiffs * v. * Global Tel*Link Corp., et al., …
Albert v. GLOBAL TELLINK CORP, MD, Memorandum Opinion and Order, Telephone Rates, 2025 Case 8:20-cv-01936-LKG Document 492 Filed 10/31/25 Page 1 of 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MARYLAND ASHLEY ALBERT, et al., Plaintiffs, Civil Action No. 20-cv-01936-LKG vs. GLOBAL TEL*LINK CORP., et al., Defendants. JOINT STATUS REPORT REGARDING …
Pay-for-Play Tablets: The Costly New Prison Paradigm by Historically, prisons and jails have been loathe to give prisoners access to technology. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) didn’t even allow prisoners regular access to telephone calls until 2009. Access to internet-based services, which the non-incarcerated take for granted, is …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Washington Spends Only Fraction of Fund to Improve Prisoner Welfare by On October 25, 2024, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) announced that it tapped $1.3 million from its Incarcerated Individual Betterment Fund (IIBF)—money that had not been spent, the agency added. Funded 90% by kickbacks from prisoner phone calls …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
First Circuit Rejects Request by Securus and Pay Tel to Stay FCC Prison Phone Rate Caps by On November 18, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued two orders denying motions filed by Securus Technologies, LLC, and Pay Tel Communications, Inc., seeking to stay implementation …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Securus/JPay Video Calling Service Potentially Threatened by New Rate Caps by On November 19, 2024, prison telecom Securus Technologies, Inc., along with subsidiary JPay, notified users of services provided by the firms at prisons and jails of steps being taken to comply with a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order. …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Kentucky Prisoners Take Advantage of Securus Software Glitch for $1 Million by On August 24, 2024, Kentucky’s Lexington Herald-Leader reported that prisoners at several state prisons took advantage of a software vulnerability in state-­issued Securus Technologies tablets to fraudulently create over $1 million in digital credits. The counterfeit funds were …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Electronic Tablets, Securus
Facing Bankruptcy, Securus Promotes Prison Tablets by Lenders to Aventiv Technologies, parent of prison telecom Securus Technologies, have given it until 2025 to sell or face bankruptcy. The company owes $1.3 billion in debt that it hasn’t been able to refinance, since the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began preparations to …
FCC Slashes Prison and Jail Phone Rates, Caps Video Call Cost, Eliminates “Site Commission” Kickbacks by On August 26, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published its final rule in the Federal Register, formalizing rulemaking that the agency issued the previous month which significantly reduces the cost of phone and …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Unintended Consequence of Texas Prisoner Tablets: Retaliation from Fellow Prisoners by As prisons and jails make services available to prisoners via electronic tablets, they report generally positive results, especially the easy access to information that the systems provide. But in an essay published by Prison Journalism Project on March 19, …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Securus Wipes Out Months of Washington Prisoners’ Writing—Again by Writers are intimately familiar with the effort it takes to organize ideas and direct them through a keyboard into text. Most have the comfort of knowing their draft work waits for them to take the next step. But incarcerated writers do …
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