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Collect Call Phone System Doesn't Violate Right to Court Access by A federal district court in Tennessee held that no constitutional violation occurred when a Tennessee prison replaced its coin operated phones with a coinless, collect call only phone system. Lawsuit was brought in context of access to counsel and …
Article • May 15, 2007
FBI Can Use Prisoners' Phone Calls for Any Lawful Purpose by Affirming the decision of the U.S. District Court of Maryland, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that prisoners of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) consent to have their telephone calls monitored and taped and that the Federal …
$4,000 Award to IN Jail Prisoner Placed on Suicide Watch by The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana denied a motion by the Allen County, Indiana sheriff and two sheriff's deputies, defendants, for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) or a new trial. A former county jail prisoner …
Prisoner Prevailing Party, Awarded Attorney Fees by A mental patient imprisoned at a treatment center run by the Massachusetts DOC brought a § 1983 action alleging constitutional violations relating to, among other things, inadequate telephone privileges, right to unopened privileged mail and right to treatment. A Superior Court issued an …
Los Angeles County Jail Conditions Unconstitutional by A California federal district court held the conditions at the Los Angeles County Jail were unconstitutional. This class action suit resulted in a non-jury trial that alleged violations of the pre-trial detainees' constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. The court found the detainees …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner Telephone Calls In County Jail Can Be Recorded by Federal prisoner Gary Friedman filed a motion to suppress tape recordings of certain telephone conversations that he made to his brother (an attorney) while in county jail. The trial court denied Friedman's suppression motion. Friedman appealed, claiming that the tape …
Article • May 15, 2007
Louisiana Sheriff Sues Parish For Revenue Generated From Jail Operation by Bob Williams By Bob Williams On December 1, 2004, the Louisiana Supreme Court held the Caddo Parish Sheriff's (Steve Prator) state court lawsuit against Caddo Parish was decided in error by the State appellate court. Prator alleged in his …
No Absolute Immunity for Illegal Wiretap; Qualified Immunity Standard Issued by The U.S. Supreme Court held that status as a Cabinet Officer is not in itself sufficient to invest that officer with absolute immunity from suit. In 1970, Attorney General John Mitchell authorized a warrantless wiretap of William Davidson's telephone …
Article • May 15, 2007
NY Ban on Internet Materials Upheld by A serious medical need is "a condition of urgency that may result in degeneration or extreme pain." (559) (No it isn't, necessarily.) The plaintiff alleged an eight-month delay in diagnosis of his "bowel disorder" (mild distal proctitis and internal hemorrhoids) from the time …
Jail Segregation Ban on Collect Calls Upheld by One of the plaintiff's claims was exhausted. At 291-92: He doesn't have "proof-positive," but he does have "some proof that his efforts to file grievances . . . were not facilitated by the Jail as required by the policy." Exhaustion is an …
Article • May 15, 2007
BOP Prison Phone Suit Wrongly Dismissed by New federal prison telephone policies limiting prisoners to 300 minutes per calendar month were instituted after the Bureau of Prisons settled an earlier suit about telephone policies. The plaintiff alleged that the earlier settlement was entered fraudulently with intent to retaliate against prisoners …
Mentally Ill WI Prisoner Sues over Control Unit Conditions by The plaintiff raised various constitutional claims, discussed below, and moved for class certification. The court denies it because the case is pro se and absent class members are "entitled at least to the assurance of competent representation afforded by licensed …
Article • April 15, 2007 • from PLN April, 2007
Two Victories in New York’s Struggle Against Unjust Telephone Contract by Rachel Meeropol Two Victories in New York's Struggle Against Unjust Telephone Contract by Annette Dickerson, Rachel Meeropol, and Lauren Melodia Families of those incarcerated by New York State finally won some justice this winter in their fight against a …
Brief • April 10, 2007
Filed under: Telephones
Florida Utilities Commission v Evercom Fl Plf Inventory of Confidential Docs Jail Phone Overcharge 2007.pdf State of Florida TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA 32399-0850 f, - d i * ,~ l , ~ i l,*~. J *I. J I r ~ 1 j DATE: April 10,2007 TO: Marguerite H. Lockard, Commission Deputy Clerk …
Brief • April 9, 2007
Filed under: Telephones
Florida Utilities Commission v Evercom Fl Def Response to Petition to Inspect W Letter Jail Phone Overcharge 2007.pdf Page 1 of 1 BEFORE THE FLOlUDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION In re: Compliance investigation of TCG Public Communications, Inc. for apparent violation of Section 364.183(1), F.S., Access to Company Records, and determination …
Brief • March 30, 2007
Sawchuck v. Jenne, FL, Order, Attorney-Client Communications, 2007 ,~.- Case 0:06-cv-61182- KAM Document 49 " Entered on FLSD Docket 03/30/2007 Page UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Case No. 06- 61182- Civ- MARRAlJOHNSON JOSEPH SAWCHUCK and RICHARD SPENCER individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated Plaintiffs …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
New Jersey Phone Rates Out of Control by Gary Hunter Two calls a week from her incarcerated son costs Marjorie Arniotis over $150 per month. Lorraine Green pays around $200 a month to talk to her imprisoned son and was paying more until one of her sons was acquitted in …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Appeals Court Reverses Summary Judgment of Washington Phone Suit by A Washington appeals court has overturned a lower court's grant of summary judgment to telephone companies in a lawsuit alleging they failed to disclose rates to recipients of prisoner-initiated phone calls as required by state law. In 2000, Sandy Judd, …
Brief • March 12, 2007
Filed under: Telephones
Florida Utilities Commission v Evercom Fl Def Interr and Rfp Jail Phone Overcharge 2007 L M M E S S E R C A P A R E L L O & SELF, P.A. A t t o r n e y s A t Law www. Iawfla.com i-" March …
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 …
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