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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 • 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 …
How “Big Capital” Learned to Love Mass Incarceration by How “Big Capital” Learned to Love Mass Incarceration “Who is accountable for the imposition of punishment in our carceral system?” asked Laura I. Appleman, Professor of Law at Willamette University, in an article published on April 13, 2023. An answer is …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Minnesota Makes All Calls Free in Prisons and Jails by On May 19, 2023, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed into law SF 2909, the Judiciary and Public Safety budget bill. Introduced by two Democratic state lawmakers, Sen. Clare Oumou Verbeten and Rep. Esther Agbaje, the measure made calls free …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
California Appeals Court Affirms Rate Caps and Fee Limitations for Prison Telecoms by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 1, 2023, the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate Division, affirmed the denial by the state Public Utility Commission (PUC) of challenges to rate caps and fee limitations brought by …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Telecoms Exploiting Legal Loopholes to Price Gouge Prisoners and Their Families by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett According to a report published by the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) on December 15, 2022, for-profit telecom companies are using loopholes in the law to price-gouge prisoners and their families on the cost …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Tablet Advertising That Can Also Issue Discipline by Dave Mass by Dave Maas Imagine you’ve been arrested and are sitting in county lock-up. You need to make arrangements for bail, a lawyer, and a caretaker for your kids or pets. Maybe you need someone to …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
California Court Sides With Securus in Challenge to CDCR Contract, Dealing Only Temporary Setback to GTL by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 10, 2021, a California court set aside an award by the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) of a contract to Global Tel Link …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Monitoring Online Purchases of Inmates’ Family and Friends by Cooper Quintin, Beryl Lipton by Cooper Quintin and Beryl Lipton This article was first published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on September 7, 2021. It is reprinted here with permission.   Prison wardens and detention center …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Access to Media, Securus
Securus Rolls Out “Free” E-tablets to Texas Prisoners by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Texas state prisoners have begun receiving free tablet computers from Securus Technologies. By February 18, 2022, the state’s privately contracted provider had distributed 3,500 “e-tablets” to prisoners in seven of its 61 state prisons—Diboll, Bell, Henley, …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting Uncovers Almost 1,000 Privileged Calls Recorded in Four County Jails, Sues York County for Denying Public Records Request by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders  On January 26, 2022, the Maine Monitor published a list of nearly 1,000 privileged calls illegally recorded between detainees and …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Suit by HRDC Alleging GTL and Securus Violated Sherman Anti-Trust Act Survives Motion to Dismiss by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A suit brought by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) alleging a price-fixing and kickback scheme by prison telephone service providers Global Tel*Link Corp. (now known as ViaPath), Securus …
Publication • January 12, 2022
WA DOC Contract -Securus Technologies, LLC 01-12-2022 INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES AGREEMENT DOC CONTRACT #K11720 BY AND BETWEEN WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC Washington State Department of Corrections K11720 P-25419 000001 Page 1 of 6 21DH TABLE OF CONTENTS Preamble 1. Agreement Documents and Conflicts in …
Kickback publication • January 1, 2010
Filed under: Securus
OH Cuyahoga County-Securus Contract 2010-2018 SECURUS Technologies Master Services Agreement Cuyahoga County (OH) A004002 This Master Services Agreement (this "Agreement") is by and between COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA, OHIO, a body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of the State of Ohio organized and existing under the Charter of Cuyahoga …
Kickback publication
Filed under: Securus
North Central Ohio Rehab Center- Securus Commission Rates
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