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Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month's cover story is by long time PLN contributing writer Mike Rigby. I am pleased to announce that in December, 2006, Mike was released from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after 13 years of imprisonment. He will continue contributing articles to PLN …
Confronting Confinement, A Report On Safety and Abuse In America’s Prisons, Vera Justice Institute (2006), 118 pp. by John Dannenberg Confronting Confinement, A Report On Safety and Abuse In America's Prisons, Vera Justice Institute (2006), 118 pp. Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's …
Cleaning up Mississippi’s Supermax: Conditions Suit Settled by David Reutter Cleaning up Mississippi's Supermax: Conditions Suit Settled by David M. Reutter A class action lawsuit filed on behalf of prisoners at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman charged that the totality of conditions are so "hellish" that it makes "Unit …
Ex-Communication: Competition and Collusion in the U.S. Prison Telephone Industry by Steven Jackson by Steven J. Jackson The prison communication industries occupy a large and significant blind spot within the literature of critical communication scholarship and the social sciences more generally. Professional arguments around crime, punishment and the American prison …
Article • December 15, 2006 • from PLN December, 2006
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Missouri Prisoner Calls Get Cheaper; But Lowest Bid Rejected by The competitive bid process is normally used by state agencies to compel companies to compete with lower bids while providing the same service. Usually, the lowest bid prevails. In the case of providing collect calls for Missouri prisons, the contract …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Virginia's General Assembly Sells Out Prisoners' Families for Phone Money by Gary Hunter Virginia's General Assembly reneged on their agreement with a prisoner advocate group to substantially reduce phone rates between prisoners and their families. Virginia's Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE) had lobbied for years to have …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Florida DOC Cuts Prisoner Collect Call Costs by 30% by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For over 10 years, the family and friends of Florida prisoners have paid exorbitant costs to communicate with their imprisoned loved one. I dont think that's right, said interim secretary of Florida's Department of …
Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Montana Awards New Prison Phone Contract by The State of Montana has contracted with Public Communications Services (PCS), Inc. to provide phone services to prisoners in the Department of Corrections, according to a January 3, 2006 press release. PCS holds itself out as a bargain for both the DOC and …
Brief • May 8, 2006
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Indiana v. Marion County, IN, Plf Supp of Mot for SJ, Phone Rates, 2006 STATE OF INDIANA SS: COUNTY OF MARION Chanelle Linet Alexander, et al., Plaintiffs, vs. The Marion County Sheriff; The Indiana Department Of Administration; and, The State of Indiana, Defendants ) ) ) ) ) ) ) …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
NY DOC's 60% Telephone Call Surcharge" Violates First and Fourteenth Amendments by NY DOC's 60% Telephone Call Surcharge" Violates First and Fourteenth Amendments by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court (S.D. N.Y.) ruled that the 60% surcharge (kickback) that the New York State Department of Corrections (NYDOC) receives from …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Private Prison Contractor Who Allegedly Diverted $1.6 Million in Telephone Revenues Sues California DOC by Private Prison Contractor Who Allegedly Diverted $1.6 Million in Telephone Revenues Sues California DOC A Bakersfield, California businessman, who lost a contract for his private prison housing California Department of Corrections (CDC) prisoners due to …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
American Bar Association Recommends Expanded Prisoner Telephone Access by by John E. Dannenberg The Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association (ABA) made a formal recommendation in its Report to the House of Delegates" (August 2005) (Report) that the ABA go on record as urging all federal and state …
Indiana State Courts Have Jurisdiction In Prisoner Phone Contract Case by Bob Williams In a suit challenging excessive collect call rates charged to prisoners' families, friends and attorneys, the Indiana Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court's dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Chanelle Alexander and others (the …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
Disclosure of Washington State Prisoner Phone RatesDisclosure of Washington State Prisoner Phone Rates Stymied by the Courts by Disclosure of Washington State Prisoner Phone Rates Stymied by the Courts by John E. Dannenberg When recipients of Washington state prisoner-originated long distance phone calls sought to compel disclosure of the telephone …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Phone Companies Gouge California Jail Prisoners' Families by by John E. Dannenberg In a scenario reminiscent of the Spy versus Spy" cartoon, phone companies are gouging California jail prisoners' families with outlandish collect call rates, while prisoners are defrauding the phone companies by taking advantage of new computerized phones to …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
California Awards MCI WorldCom Another Sole-Source Prisoner Phone Contract by by Marvin Mentor The California Department of Corrections (CDC) awarded a sole-source contract to MCI WorldCom (MCI) for all CDC prisoner phones. The October 29, 2004 agreement covers four years, with options for up to two one-year extensions. Significantly, CDC …
California Demands $1.6 Million In Diverted Telephone Revenues From Private Prison Contractor by John E Dannenberg California Demands $1.6 Million In Diverted Telephone Revenues From Private Prison Contractor by John E. Dannenberg The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has charged private prison contractor Marantha Corrections LLC with "misappropriating" more than …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Is There A Winning Argument Against Excessive Rates For Collect Calls From Prisoners? by John E Dannenberg by Madeline Severin, 25 Cardozo Law Review 1469, March, 2004 Review by John E. Dannenberg We all know about how prisons and jails conspire with telephone companies to bilk recipients of prisoner phone …
Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004
Illinois Appeals Court Reinstates Prisoner's Telephone Disconnect Suit by The Illinois Court of Appeals for the Third District reinstated a prisoner's lawsuit against Ameritech over the company's alleged fraudulent intentional early disconnecting of prisoner phone calls. Johnnie Flournoy, an Illinois state prisoner, filed suit in state court alleging fraud and …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Virginia SCC Without Jurisdiction to Hear Prisoner Phone Rate Challenge by Virginia SCC Without Jurisdiction to Hear Prisoner Phone Rate Challenge The Virginia Supreme Court, in an un-published opinion, has held the State Corporation Commission (SCC) does not have jurisdiction to hear challenge to prisoner phone rates. Virginia Department of …
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