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Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Massachusetts Becomes the Fifth State to Make Prison Phone Calls Free by Until December 1, 2023, Massachusetts prisoners and their families paid 12 cents per minute for phone calls, 14 cents in jails, though the first 10 minutes there every month were free. That added up to about $25 million …
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 …
Publication • December 21, 2023
Commonwealth of Mass-Standard Contract -Inmate Calling Solutions 2024 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Standard Contract Form Instructions and Contractor Certifications This form is jointly issued and published by the Office of the Comptroller (CTR), the Executive Office for Administration and Finance (ANF), and the Operational Services Division (OSD) as the default contract …
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 …
Sheriffs Offered Caribbean Cruises and Florida Retreats As Part Of Jail Telecom Contracts by Hayden Betts by Hayden Betts Members of five sheriff’s offices across the country were offered cruises from “Tampa Bay to the Caribbean” as part of jail telecommunications contracts with the vendor Smart Communications, according to documents …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
FCC Granted Broader Authority to Regulate Prisoner Call Costs by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On March 16, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to begin rule-making to implement the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2022. Named after a determined woman who tirelessly campaigned to lower …
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 …
FCC Requires Prison Telecoms to Provide Services for Deaf Prisoners by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi Life in prison is difficult for anyone, but especially for deaf people. Without a video phone or teletypewriter (TTY), a deaf person cannot communicate with loved ones by phone. Under a new rule that …
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 …
Brief • April 4, 2023
Filed under: Global Tel*Link Corp
Johnson v. County of Los Angelese, CA, Complaint, GTL-Illegal Fees, 2023 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 BARRETT S. LITT, SBN 45527 blitt@mbllegal.com McLANE, BEDNARSKI & LITT, LLP 975 E. Green Street Pasadena, California 91106 Telephone: (626) 844-7660 Facsimile: (626) 844-7670 SCOTT …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
GTL Ordered to Pay $18.675 Million in Attorney Fees and Costs in Prison Phone Class Action by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W Accurso On August 30, 2022, the federal court for the Northern District of Georgia granted final approval to a class-action settlement in a suit accusing prison telecom giant …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Massachusetts High Court: Lawmakers Haven’t Stopped Sheriffs From Taking Kickbacks from Jail Phone Calls, and Neither Will We by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On May 17, 2022, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that sheriffs may continue the decades-old practice of collecting commissions from charges for phone calls …
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 …
Brief • August 30, 2022
Githieya v. Global Tel Link Corp, GA,Order Granting Settlement, Breach of Contract, 2022 Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 369 Filed 08/30/22 Page 1 of 25 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION BENSON GITHIEYA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CIVIL ACTION NO: 1:15-CV-00986-AT GLOBAL TEL LINK CORP., Defendant. ORDER GRANTING …
Brief • August 30, 2022
Githieya v. Global Tel Link Corp, GA, Judgment, Breach of Contract, 2022 Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 370 Filed 08/30/22 Page 1 of 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION BENSON GITHIEYA, et al., Plaintiff(s), CIVIL ACTION FILE vs. NO. 1:15-cv-986-AT GLOBAL TEL LINK CORP, Defendant(s). JUDGMENT This …
The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Prison Gaming and AR/VR Services by Cooper Quintin, Beryl Lipton by Cooper Quintin and Beryl Lipton This article was originally published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on September 9, 2021. It is reprinted here, with permission. No matter how many rights are taken away from …
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 • July 13, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Mission Creep: Prison Telecoms Scramble to Extend Their Reach by Alan Prendergast by Alan Prendergast In a news cycle dominated by reports of war, plague and insurrection, a single press announcement from Global Tel*Link (GTL) managed to convey some of the oddest news of all. Flash: The creators of the …
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, …
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