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Article • June 12, 2015
Colorado Sheriff Appropriates $349K of Unclaimed Money in Ex-Prisoners’ Accounts by Joe Watson Colorado Sheriff Appropriates $349K of Unclaimed Money in Ex-Prisoners’ Accounts by Joe Watson When is a check too small to cash? It’s when you've just been released from jail and hope to get as far away as …
Brief • June 7, 2015
James v. GTL, NJ, Def Motion to Compel Arbitration, Telephone Terms of Service, 2015 Case 2:13-cv-04989-WJM-MF Document 95 Filed 08/07/15 Page 1 of 2 PageID: 767 GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP 200 Park Avenue Florham Park, New Jersey 07932 Philip R. Sellinger Aaron Van Nostrand Ph: (973) 360-7900 Attorneys for Defendants Global …
Article • May 24, 2015
Prison Hobby Shop Surcharge Upheld By California Court by Prison Hobby Shop Surcharge Upheld By California Court A California appellate court has upheld a ten percent surcharge imposed on the sale of prison inmates' hobby craft items, overturning a superior court order which held it to be unconstitutional. The case …
Publication • March 23, 2015
HRDC comment to CFPB re release debit cards March 2015 Human Rights Defense Center DEDICATED TO PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS March 23, 2015 Submitted Online Only Eric Goldberg Office of Regulations, CFPB P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, IA 52244 RE: Comment on Regulation of Prepaid Debit Cards Issued to Prisoners and …
Article • February 4, 2015 • from PLN February, 2015
Change in Florida Jail Policy Leads to Increased Homelessness by David Reutter Change in Florida Jail Policy Leads to Increased Homelessness by David M. Reutter For those without resources or help from family or friends, being released from jail has always been difficult. A change in policy in Broward County, …
Article • January 12, 2015
Florida Pretrial Detainees Properly Charged “Subsistence Costs” by Florida Pretrial Detainees Properly Charged “Subsistence Costs” The Florida Court of Appeal for the Fourth District has upheld the constitutional application of a statue and a jail’s procedures allowing pretrial detainees to be charged “daily subsistence costs.” Pretrial detainees Thomas Solomos and …
Article • January 11, 2015
Filed under: Trust Accounts, Commissary
CA Prison Canteen Price-Gouging Case Dismissed by CA Prison Canteen Price-Gouging Case Dismissed The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has dismissed a class action lawsuit brought by state prisoners alleging that prison officials unfairly raised canteen prices to make up for money lost in an earlier …
Article • January 10, 2015 • from PLN January, 2015
Filed under: Trust Accounts, Commissary
Investigation Finds that Money Stolen from Oregon Prison Wasn’t Really Stolen by Joe Watson Investigation Finds that Money Stolen from Oregon Prison Wasn’t Really Stolen by Joe Watson An Oregon State Police investigation has revealed that money believed stolen from the Oregon State Correctional Institution (OSCI) was actually right where …
Prison Bankers Cash in on Captive Customers by Daniel Wagner Prison Bankers Cash in on Captive Customers by Daniel Wagner Pat Taylor doesn’t believe in going into debt. She keeps her bills in a freezer bag under her bed, next to old photo albums, and believes in paying them on …
Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014
JPay Fined in Pennsylvania, Michigan for Operating without a License by JPay Fined in Pennsylvania, Michigan for Operating without a License As indicated in this issue’s cover story, JPay, a company incorporated in Delaware and based in Miami, Florida, and the industry leader in prison money transfer services, has been …
Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014
Report Spurs Investigation of Bank of America, JPMorgan Prison Deals by Daniel Wagner Report Spurs Investigation of Bank of America, JPMorgan Prison Deals Government auditors are investigating exclusive contracts held by Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. to provide financial services inside federal prisons. by Daniel Wagner …
Article • June 6, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
Oregon Garnishment Exemption Protects Funds in Prisoners’ Accounts by Mark Wilson Oregon Garnishment Exemption Protects Funds in Prisoners’ Accounts by Mark Wilson An Oregon judge has held that a prosecutor improperly seized money from a prisoner’s trust account to pay a court-ordered “compensatory fine.” In 2006, Norman Earl Schlunt was …
Article • June 5, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
Ninth Circuit Revives Prison Trust Account Seizure Claim; Disputed Ownership Requires Due Process Protections by Ninth Circuit Revives Prison Trust Account Seizure Claim; Disputed Ownership Requires Due Process Protections In an unpublished ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a federal district court’s sua sponte dismissal of a California …
Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014
Arkansas Suing Prisoners for Incarceration Costs by Arkansas officials are suing prisoners under the State Prison Inmate Care and Custody Reimbursement Act (Act), seeking reimbursement for the costs of their incarceration by obtaining court orders and seizing money from their prison trust accounts. For example, a state court entered an …
Article • March 15, 2013
Tenth Circuit: No Clearly-Established Right to Oklahoma Trust Fund Money by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 22, 2010, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Oklahoma state prisoners had no clearly-established right to the funds in their trust fund accounts in 2007. Herman T. Clark, an Oklahoma …
Tenth Circuit Faults Kansas Prisoners' Representation; Upholds Dismissal of Compulsory Savings Account Challenge by Thanks largely to profoundly incompetent representation, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a constitutional challenge to compulsory Kansas prison savings account policies. The Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) adopted policies requiring that …
Washington Appeals Court Denies Prisoner's Prison Account Funds Suit by The Court of Appeals of the State of Washington has upheld the state superior court's grant of summary judgment in which James A. Boyd had challenged the authority of Washington State to deduct funds from his prison account for an …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Oregon Adopts 5% Prison Trust Fund Account “Service Fee” by Tasked with cutting $28 million from its massive $1.36 billion budget, Oregon prison officials had to look under every couch cushion for loose change. That means they once again turned their focus to prisoners and their loved ones, who present …
Article • July 15, 2012
Washington DOC Can Collect Incarceration Fees Waived by Trial Court by The Washington State Supreme Court has held that the Department of Corrections (DOC) “has independent statutory authority to collect costs of incarceration regardless of the trial court’s waiver of costs of incarceration in the judgment and sentence.” Additionally, it …
Article • July 15, 2011
Gifts Not “Income” for Pennsylvania Child Support Orders by The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania held that the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) applied an erroneous definition of “income,” to withdraw funds from a prisoner’s trust account. On May 26, 2005, a trial court issued an order to withhold income for …
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