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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 • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Pigeonly Flies Into Telecom Turbulence, Declares Bankruptcy by Pigeonly, Inc., a prison communication startup founded by former prisoner Frederick Hutson, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on January 26, 2024, in United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada in Las Vegas. Pigeonly contracts with jails and prisons to …
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 • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Telecom Firms Shift Revenue Streams in Response to Prison Phone Reforms by As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held an information-­gathering hearing on April 24, 2024, about a proposed rule regarding so-­called “junk fees,” prisoners are set to get left behind. The problem mushroomed once more governments moved to make …
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, …
Publication • August 1, 2024
NJPP-PrisonProfiteers- How Private Companies Profit From Prison Phone Calls and Harm New Jersey Residents-Aug2024 August 2024 Prison Profiteers: How Private Companies Profit From Prison Phone Calls and Harm New Jersey Residents Marleina Ubel, Senior Policy Analyst For the thousands of people incarcerated in New Jersey's prisons and jails, a phone …
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 …
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 …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Fourth Circuit Reinstates HRDC’s RICO Claim Against Securus and ViaPath by On June 4, 2023, a request for a rehearing en banc before the entire U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit was denied in a suit accusing prison telecom providers Securus Technologies and Global Tel*Link (GTL)—now known as …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Global Tel*Link Corp
FTC Orders GTL/ViaPath to Help 650,000 Customers Whose Info Was Stolen, Posted on Dark Web by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 24, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its final order requiring prison calling-service provider Global Tel*Link (GTL) “to change its security practices and offer free credit …
Publication • April 29, 2024
Incarcerated People’s Communications Services, Implementation of the Martha Wright-Reed Act; Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services, FCC WC Docket Nos. 23-62 and 12-375, Ex Parte Submission of the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division UNITED STATES FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION ______ Incarcerated People’s Communications Services, Implementation of the Martha Wright-Reed Act; …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Missouri Expands Prison Mail Ban to Include Books Sent by Family, Friends by After banning state prisoners from receiving physical mail the year before, the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) extended the ban on September 25, 2023, to include books sent to prisoners from family or friends. The rule change …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
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 …
Brief • March 15, 2024
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Pennsylvania County Found Skimming Prisoner-Designated Funds from ViaPath Kickbacks by After a Pennsylvania newspaper’s investigation revealed that Dauphin County officials diverted money intended for prisoners earned from jail phone call kickbacks—spending it instead on staff perks and private contractors—state lawmakers began looking at ways to stop them. On September 7, …
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