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Complaint Need Not List Capacity Defendants Sued In

Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996

Filed under: Medical, Medication, Complaints, Eleventh Amendment Immunity, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

Complaint Need Not List Capacity Defendants Sued In by The court of appeals for the fourth circuit has held that plaintiffs suing under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 need not specifically plead in their complaint that the state officials are being sued in the individual rather than their official capacities. Instead, …

NC Prisoners Riot in Tennessee

Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996

Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Rebellion

NC Prisoners Riot in Tennessee by On October 28, 1995, more than 100 North Carolina prisoners at the Corrections Corporation of America owned private prison in Mason, TN rioted, demanding to be returned to North Carolina. The prisoners smashed toilets and sinks and knocked a hole in a dormitory wall. …

NC DNA Testing Statute Upheld

Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995

Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings

NC DNA Testing Statute Upheld by Past issues of PLN have reported on the legal and political issues involved in DNA testing. Several states and the federal government have passed laws in the last five years which mandate the taking of blood from prisoners in order to compile a DNA …

Population PI Vacated

Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995

Filed under: Failure to Protect (General), Overcrowding, Staffing, Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Guards/Staff, ACA

Population PI Vacated by Prisoners at the North Carolina DOC Morrison Youth Institution (MYI) filed a class action suit claiming that overcrowding and under staffing at the prison exposed them to constitutionally unacceptable risks of physical violence. They sought a preliminary injunction (PI) which was granted. The district court ordered …

NC Consent Decree Modified

Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Overcrowding, Consent Decrees

NC Consent Decree Modified by In 1985 North Carolina state prisoners filed a class action suit seeking relief from unconstitutional conditions at 49 of the states 97 prison facilities. During trial the parties settled and entered into a consent decree which limited overcrowding to 140% of capacity in medium security …

Court Allows Video Commitment Hearing

Article • June 15, 1994 • from PLN June, 1994

Filed under: Court Access, Court Appearances, Civil Commitment

Court Allows Video Commitment Hearing by Leroy Baker is a federal prisoner who was scheduled for a hearing to determine if he would be committed to a mental health facility. While there is nothing unusual about such hearings, this one was conducted by means of "teleconferencing" whereby Baker and his …

The Telephone Game

Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Telephone Rates

The Telephone Game by Nearly a year and a half after a scandal about purchasing involving the North Carolina Coin Tel Company has passed. The grand jury has finally indicted two people in the illegal activities. The indictments handed down against D.R. Hursey and Michael A. Weaver focus on a …

Jury Must Be Asked If Prisoner Testimony Credible

Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993

Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Civil Procedure, Evidentiary Ruling, Jury Instructions, Juries, Witnesses, Qualified Immunity

Jury Must Be Asked If Prisoner Testimony Credible by Jeffrey Rainey was a North Carolina pretrial detainee. He claimed that in the course of a dispute with a jail guard the guard used excessive force against him by slamming him into a wall three times, injuring his back. He filed …

Telephone Announcements Halted

Article • October 15, 1992 • from PLN October, 1992

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access

Telephone Announcements Halted by PLN recently reported that Creations , a prisoner rights group in North Carolina, had filed suit concerning the practice of U.S. Sprint operators of announcing the fact that a call was originating in a prison and the limitations on phone services available to prisoners. We have …

Claims Regarding Conditions in State Prison Were Sufficient to Survive Summary Judgment

Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992

Filed under: Overcrowding, Eighth Amendment, Shelter, Civil Procedure, Summary Judgment

Claims Regarding Conditions in State Prison Were Sufficient to Survive Summary Judgment by On December 30th the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit provided some illumination as to what sort of allegations by an inmate regarding allegedly unconstitutional prison conditions are adequate to withstand a motion by prison …

Requirement of Buzz Words on Envelope of Incoming Legal Mail Killed

Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990

Filed under: Mail, Legal Mail

Requirement of Buzz Words on Envelope of Incoming Legal Mail Killed by A prisoner brought a suit challenging a Bureau of Prisons policy (P.S. 5265.8) mandating that letters from law firms, the courts, or any other communication which is considered privileged, be marked with special buzz words on the outside …

NC Phone Rates from 2004 Contract

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Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

NC Phone Rates from 2004 Contract AT&T 4. Publicllnmate Payphone Services Service restoration and switchback. Once the Raleigh CAM office is functional and online, inmate calls from the NCDOC smart phones will be switched back to the Raleigh CAM location. Most non catastrophic outages can be resolved by local technicians …

NC Contract Award to AT&T 2004

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Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

NC Contract Award to AT&T 2004 \ Dear System Statewide Procurement wishes to inform you that the above referenced bid is being awarded to AT&T. This award will in accordance your response to Request Proposal IT·~-000938A and' subsequent dated 1/9/04, 1/29/04, 2/20/04, 2/27/04 and 5/27/04. The initial term or extended …

NC Phone Kickbacks 2008

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Filed under: Telephones

NC Phone Kickbacks 2008 Include this email and response in the NC folder. ---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Fowler, Don <don.fowler@nc.gov> Date: Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:05 PM Subject: RE: Follow-up re inmate phone question To: stein <stein919@gmail.com> 2008 NC Inmate commission $8,722,327.58 Don Fowler Networking Specialist State of North …

2013 North Carolina Inmate Phone Rates

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Filed under: Telephones

2013 North Carolina Inmate Phone Rates 2013 North Carolina Inmate Phone Rates **New capability effective September 1, 2013, family and friends can add funds to an inmate's debit account online using OFFENDERCONNECT ** The North Carolina Department of Public Safety, Division of Adult Correction has a contract with Global Tel*Link …

NC Contract Extension with GTL through June 2012

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Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

NC Contract Extension with GTL through June 2012 GLOBAL TEL*L1NK CORPORATION f iTS Contract Addendum I to lTS~000938A THIS CONTRACT ADDENDUM I (Contract Addendum I) is entered into by and between Global Te l*Link Corporation, 2609 Cameron St., Mobile, AL 36607 (GTL), and Infonnation Technology Services of 3700 Wake Forest …

NC Phone Kickbacks 2009-2012

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Filed under: Telephones

NC Phone Kickbacks 2009-2012 Inmate Payphone Commission Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2009 2010 2011 2012 $45,870.01 $691,613.10 $617,088.67 $555,623.36 $423,827.07 $728,446.73 $671,379.94 $612,339.78 $741,544.71 $757,220.09 $730,747.97 $636,169.65 $696,060.30 $668,065.68 $670,347.12 $561,740.73 $735,942.50 $662,594.46 $651,544.62 $557,609.56 $728,666.42 $618,741.51 $615,124.29 $534,528.65 $734,794.66 $628,720.27 $603,251.94 …

NC DPS Phone Rates September 2019

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Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates

NC DPS Phone Rates September 2019 9/24/2019 NCDPS - Inmate Telephone System Call Rates Local (Rate type 2) Miles Rate Collect/Direct Bill ALL $1.25/flat rate 15 minute call Advance Pay ALL $1.25/flat rate 15 minute call Debit/Inmate Net ALL $1.13/flat rate 15 minute call Local Extended (Rate type 3) IntraState …

NC Contract With GTL Amendment 3 Extension Through 6-30-15

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NC Contract With GTL Amendment 3 Extension Through 6-30-15

NC Rates and Fees 2015

Kickback publication

NC Rates and Fees 2015 6/25/2015 NCDPS Inmate Telephone System Inmate Phone Program The North Carolina Department of Public Safety, Prisons has a contract with GTL to provide phone service for inmates to communicate with families and friends. If an individual wishes to purchase phone time (for themselves or …