Texas DCJ - Centurylink Commission Rate 2018-2025 696-IT-19-25-C021 Section B SECTION B - SUPPLIES OR SERVICES AND PRICES/COSTS B.1 SERVICES AND PRICES/COSTS B.1.1 Services Being Acquired The Contractor shall provide a statewide turnkey Offender Telephone System (OTS) for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). This Contract is a revenue …
Texas DCJ - Centurylink Rates 2018-2025 696-JT-19-25-C021 B.2 Section B Pricing Schedule See C.3.10 Base Services and Added Value items. B.2.1 Standard Configuration Base Period (9/1/2018 through 8/31/2025) Collect Call Rates Rate/Minute $0.060 $0.060 $0.060 Local Intrastate Interstate Commission % 40 .0% 40.0% 40.0% Base Period (9/1/2018 through 8/31/2025) Prepaid …
Female Texas Prison Guards Allege Sexual Harassment, Abuse, Discrimination by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon During the 10-year period ending in 2017, over 3,500 complaints of sexual harassment and gender bias were filed against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). The state’s largest agency, TDCJ employs 37,000 people, including …
Texas Prison Officials Demoted, Fired after Disciplinary Quota System and Planted Contraband Exposed by In April 2018, prisoners at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s (TDCJ) Ramsey Unit in Rosharon smuggled out of the facility and into the hands of the Houston Chronicle records that proved the existence of a …
Death Sentences and Executions Ebbing in the “Capital of Capital Punishment” by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Harris County, Texas is known for many things. The county seat is Houston, the fourth-largest city in the United States and the largest in Texas. It has its own shipping channel and a …
Pro se Texas Prisoner Wins $250,550 Default Judgment in Use of Force Case by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon William Gerald Fitzgerald was a pre-trial detainee at a jail in Harris County, Texas when, on May 18, 2013, he was attacked from behind by jailer Myron Nelson. Nelson struck Fitzgerald …
Low Pay, High Staff Turnover Drive Texas Prison Guard Shortage by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke Of the 26,000 guards who work in Texas’ 104 state prisons, 28 percent left their jobs in 2017 – an increase from the prior year’s 22.8 percent turnover rate and “the highest in recent …
Salim v. JPay, TX, Complaint, Video Visitation Cutoffs, 2018 Case 4:18-cv-00730-ALM-KPJ Document 1 Filed 10/12/18 Page 1 of 16 PageID #: 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS OUMER SALIM, on behalf of himself and others similarly situated § § § Plaintiff, § § …
Lawsuit Alleges Texas County Jailers Beat, Paralyzed Prisoner by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke A lawsuit filed in federal district court alleges guards at the jail in Milam County, Texas beat a compliant prisoner without any reason, causing him to become paralyzed, then “released” him while he was in the …
Texas Settles Suit Over Rape and Beating of Transgender Prisoner by On March 15, 2018, Lambda Legal, an organization that advocates for LGBT rights, announced the settlement of a lawsuit brought by a male-to-female transgender Texas prisoner who was beaten and raped while serving 14 years in all-male facilities. After …
Mother of Prisoner Who Died at Texarkana Jail Challenges $200,000 Settlement; Nurse Pleads Guilty by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On November 11, 2017, notice of a $200,000 settlement was filed in a federal lawsuit over the death of a diabetic Texarkana jail prisoner who died after a nurse ignored …
Texas Uses Failed Private Prison to Hold Civilly Committed Sex Offenders by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In 2015, Texas converted its outpatient program for civilly committed sex offenders into a “tiered” treatment program, in which participants start out in a “total confinement facility” at twice the cost of the …
Former Mexican Mafia General Turned Informant Receives $25,000 from GEO Group, 20 Years in Prison from Feds by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke After former Mexican Mafia general Raymond S. “Indio” Tellez agreed to testify against the gang, two gang members stabbed him multiple times in a secure area of …
Human Rights Defense Center v. The GEO Group, Inc. Texas Public Records, 2018 FILED 8/28/2018 11:39 AM Donna Kay McKinney Bexar County District Clerk Accepted By: Victoria Angeles Cause No. HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, 2018CI16343 § § § § § § § § v. THE GEO GROUP, INC., Defendant. …
Texas Rates September 2018 8/28/2018 Texas prison system slashes price of inmate phone calls by 77 percent - Houston Chronicle X Your California Privacy Rights Privacy Notice Advertising Interest Based Ads Terms of Use Contact Us IMAGE 1 OF 24 The Texas prison board approved a lower cost phone contract …
Texas Towns with Private Prisons Experience Job Losses by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke Over a decade ago, with the promise of cost savings as well as stable jobs for the community, local governments in Texas agreed to issue bonds to finance the construction of prisons and jails operated by …
Texas Couple Wrongly Convicted in “Satanic Panic” Receive $3.4 Million by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke An Austin, Texas couple wrongly convicted of sexually abusing a child at the day-care center they ran in the 1990s has been declared innocent and received over $3.4 million in compensation from the state. …
Lawsuit Against Private Prison Firm Over Prisoner’s Death at Texarkana Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke The family of a prisoner who died at the Bi-State Jail in Texarkana has filed a federal civil rights suit alleging his death resulted from inadequate medical care. The jail is unique in …
McCully v. El Paso County, CO, Settlement and Release, Excessive Force, 2018 SKfTL.li'.Mf~NT AGRgEMENT ANl) !lELEASl!: This 8cUlerncnt J\grcement and Release (the "Agreement") is entered inlo between P!HLIPPA MCCULLY (Rckasor) nnd CORRECT CARE SOLUTIONS, LLC ("CCS"); CORRECTIONAL HEALTHCARE COMPANIES, lNC ("CHC"); CORRECTIONAL HEALTHCARE PBYSICIANS, P.C. ("CHP"); (jointly, "Re!easecs"), Rcleasor and …
Federal Jury Awards Texas Man $169,128 in Excessive Force Claim Against Sheriff’s Deputy by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zouki Richard Uekert, who suffered a fractured nose and teeth from a San Patricio County sheriff’s deputy, was awarded $169,128 by a federal jury after it determined that the deputy used excessive …
