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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 …
Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004
California Class Action Lawsuit Targets Unauthorized Prison Phone Charges by A lawsuit currently pending in a California state court claims that certain providers of prison telephone services have improperly charged for collect calls from correctional institutions that were not authorized or accepted by the called party. The lawsuit, Condes v. …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Washington Failure to Disclose Prison-Phone-Rate Suit Dismissed, State Supreme Court Grants Review by Sam Rutherford Division I of the Washington State Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court dismissal of an action challenging phone companies' failure to disclose the rates for collect calls made by Washington prisoners. Relief was …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
NYPD Commissioner Charged With Stealing $112,733.98 from Jail Prisoner Fund by NYPD Commissioner Charged With Stealing $112,733.98 from Jail Prisoner Fund By Matthew T. Clarke On July 11, 2003, NYPD Deputy Po-lice Commissioner of Community Affairs Fredrick J. Patrick, 38, was arrested on federal charges that he looted close to …
Fighting for Fair Phone Rates by Deborah M Golden Fighting For Fair Phone Rates by Deborah M. Golden In 2000, a group of prisoners, loved ones of prisoners, and attorneys filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the high cost of collect calls …
Disarray in Colorado: Prisoners Hurt by Host of Problems by Bob Williams Society is dynamic, in a state of con-stant flux where change is the only constant, but recent changes in Colorado are turning up the pressure in Colorado's prison system. Prisoner pay has been nearly eliminated while hygiene items …
CCA Closes Oklahoma Prison, Settles Tax Lawsuit Over Ohio Prison by Michael Rigby The turbulent economy of the past decade has led many communities across America to foolishly seek prisons as a recession proof industry and rural welfare program for poor whites. But prisons can be a double edged sword, …
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