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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
Colorado Passes New Law to Expand Prisoner Visitation Rights by In early May 2025, the Colorado Legislature approved a bill that would increase visitation rights for incarcerated people. Signed into law by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, the bill, HB25-1013, ends a policy in the state in which “inmate social visiting” …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
A Colorado Jail Has Banned In-Person Visits Since the Pandemic by For more than four years, beginning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Boulder County Jail in Boulder, Colorado has remained closed to in-person visitations. Although prisons have returned to allowing visitors, many jails have yet to re-instate in-person access. At …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Two California Prisoners Accused of Strangling Conjugal Visitors by The death of a woman during a conjugal visit with her husband incarcerated at California’s Mule Creek State Prison was ruled a homicide by the Coroner’s Bureau of the Amador County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) on March 17, 2025. David Brinson, 54, …
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 • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Filed under: Visiting, Class Actions
Two Michigan Jails Face Class-Action Suits for Banning In-Person Visits by In a disturbing trend, local jails are discontinuing in-person visits in conjunction with adopting fee-based video calling services. Based on 2015 data, the non-profit Prison Policy Initiative found that “74% of jails banned in-person visits when they implemented video …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
California Prisoner Wins Round Before Magistrate in Lawsuit Over Marriage Application Delayed Two Years by It took California state prisoner Rafael Salas almost two years before he was able to marry in May 2022, due to repeated delays by state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials at Kern Valley …
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 • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Georgia Sheriff Takes $160,000 Kickback from Pay Tel for Video Visitation by Under contract provisions that went into effect on January 1, 2024, prison telecom giant Pay Tel secured a monopoly on video visitation services at Georgia’s Glynn County Jail. A contract addendum inked in June 2023 says that the …
Publication • 2024
A Look Behind the Screens-Examining the Data Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Services-FTC Sept. 2024 A Look Behind the Screens Examining the Data Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Services Federal Trade Commission September 2024 A Look Behind the Screens Examining the Data Practices of Social Media …
Publication • April 1, 2024
Special Report, Visits and Phone Calls, NJ Office of the Corrections Ombudsperson (April 2024) Visits and Phone Calls NJ Office of the Corrections Ombudsperson, Special Report April 2024 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Sustaining relationships with loved ones through a period of incarceration can be difficult, but research suggests that doing so has …
Brief • March 15, 2024
S.L. v. Sheriff Swanson, MI, Complaint, Prohibit of In-Person Visits, 2024 STATE OF MICHIGAN IN THE 7th CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF GENESEE S.L.. T.L.L., T.L.. C.L.. M.L. J.L., N.L., D.L., and J-1.L. , by their next friend Onisha Lyle, Z.T.E .. Z.W., K.W. , by their next friend …
Brief • March 15, 2024
M.M. v. Sheriff King, MI, Complaint, Prohibit of In-Person Visits, 2024 STATE OF MICHIGAN IN THE 3P CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF ST. CLAIR 1 M.M., by her next friend Danielle McDonald, C.P. and A.P., by their next friend Brianna Griffin, MARIE BILLS, and KATHLEEN TANTON, individually and on …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
New York Adding Names to Tombstones of Dead Prisoners by “We recognize them as people, not just a number,” said Rev. Alfred Twyman. The chaplain with New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) was talking about corpses of people who died in a state prison, in a report …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Visiting, Video Visitation
South Carolina Supreme Court Denies Prisoner’s Challenge to DOC Policy Restricting Visitors to People He Knew Before Incarceration by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On April 5, 2023, the South Carolina Supreme Court affirmed that denying a state prisoner visits from people he didn’t know prior to incarceration did not …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Five Years After Limiting Personal Visits and Banning Mail, Drug Use Worse in Pennsylvania Prisons by As reported by the Harrisburg Patriot News on April 21, 2023, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) implemented a solution to the drug problem in state prisons in September 2018 that has proved cruel …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Filed under: Education, Video Visitation
The Lecturer at the Lockup: Maine Prisoner Is First to Teach College Courses from His Cell by Professor Leo Hylton’s class is like almost every other at Colby College in Maine. Students form a circle with their chairs around their professor. His course on prison abolition – the movement to …
Prolonged COVID-19 Visitation Restrictions Net Georgia Jails Over $1.5 Million in Telecom Kickbacks by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi According to a report by the Georgia Current on April 14, 2023, jails in several of the state’s coastal counties were still profiting by extending COVID-19 visitation bans, forcing detainees and …
Publication • June 13, 2023
Filed under: Video Visitation
Glynn County Sheriff's Office and Pay Tel Communications, Lnc. Contract, 2023 CONTRACT ADDENDUM BETWEEN THE GLYNN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND PAY TEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC. Pursuant to the contract for telephone services by and between the Glynn County Sheriffs Office and Pay Tel Commun ications. Inc. executed on August 15. 2014. …
Article • January 9, 2023
Filed under: COVID-19, Visiting
Michigan Prisoners Once Again Lose Visitation Due to COVID-19 and Influenza Outbreaks by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Michigan state prisoners are having a grim winter. Quarantine orders are in effect at 11 state lockups suffering outbreaks of the flu and COVID-19. Two prisons, Macomb Correctional Facility (CF) …
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