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Settlement Agreement Reached in Wisconsin Supermax Suit by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) officials settled the 42 USC § 1983 class action civil rights suit brought by seriously mentally ill prisoners housed in the Boscobel, WI Supermax state prison by agreeing not to …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
New Mexico Caps High Telephone Rates by The governor of New Mexico signed a bill in February 2001, prohibiting prisons from profiting on prisoners' phone calls, which was exceeding 10 times the regular competitive rates with a 15 minute call costing up to $20. The Public Communications Services, a Los …
Brief • 2002
Filed under: Telephones
Condes v Evercom First Amended Complaint Phone Suit 2002 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 LAW OFFICES OF EDWARD C. CASEY, JR. EDWARD C. CASEY, JR. (State Bar #123702) 2100 Lakeshore Avenue, Suite A Oakland, CA 94606 Telephone: (510) 208-4422 Facsimile: (510) 272-9999 c_, …
Brief • 2002
Filed under: Telephones
Condes v. Evercom Systems, Ca, Complaint, Phone Rates, 2002 06/18/2004 FRI 10:17 FAX 415 675 2961 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ALLURED LAW OFFICE LAW OFFICES OF EDWARD C. CASEY, JR. EDWARD C. CASEY, JR. (State Bar #123702) 2100 Lakeshore Avenue, Suite A …
U.S. Cited for Human Rights Violations by Gary Hunter On May 15, 2001, at a human rights conference in Geneva, the United States was denounced for its inhumane and discriminatory practices. Amnesty International and the U.N. Committee Against Torture cited the U.S. for oppressive tactics by both public law enforcement …
High Cost of Prison Telephone Calls Goes to Illinois State Court by In a characteristically colorful opinion from Judge Richard Posner, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit breathed new life into an otherwise moribund lawsuit where plaintiffs sought relief from the exorbitant charges for collect telephone calls …
Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002
Prison Phone Rate Case Remanded to South Carolina State Court by The United States District Court of South Carolina has remanded to state court a suit by prisoners' family members against Sprint Payphone Services and other communications providers, the State of South Carolina, and the South Carolina Department of Corrections …
MCI WorldCom Investigated in Georgia for Phone Overcharges; State Senator Involved by Lonnie Burton MCI WorldCom owns the exclusive contract to provide phone services to the 45,000 prisoners incarcerated in the State of Georgia. Of course, the prisoners are only allowed to place collect calls, and have no choice on …
Claims Dismissed in First Challenge to BOP Communications Ban by by Matthew T .Clarke The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the claims in the first published challenge to the implementation of Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) dismissed without prejudice for failure to …
You're in the Hole: A Crackdown on Dissident Prisoners by Anne-Marie Cusac It was September 19, 2001. Elizabeth McAlister had not heard from her husband, Philip Berrigan, in more than a week. Such silence on Berrigan's part was "most unusual," she says. Convinced that something was wrong, she telephoned the …
No Qualified Immunity for Shackling Prisoner to Hospital Bed by Gregory May, a Cook County, Illinois, prisoner, filed a suit against the Sheriff and Sheriff's Department officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging their treatment of prisoners taken to Cook County Hospital is unconstitutional and violates the Americans with Disabilities …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
$522,458 Rebate Ordered in California Prisoner Phone Overcharges by John E Dannenberg The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) ordered MCI Telecommunications Corp. (MCI) to offset $522,458 in overcharges it made between June 14, 1996, and July 12, 1999, on MCI California Maximum Security Calls (i.e., California prisoner collect calls) by …
California Racial Segregation Case Reversed; Phone Claim Dismissed by Holding that the action was not time-barred and otherwise stated an actionable claim, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s pro se action which claimed that California state prisons practiced racial …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
California Dials Wrong Number by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely In reaction to bad publicity, lawsuits, and legislative hearings following a record number of fatal shootings of unarmed male prisoners, staged fights, and the sexual abuse and medical neglect of women prisoners, California established the allegedly independent Office of Inspector …
Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001
Malicious Use of Force Violates Eighth Amendment by John E Dannenberg The Third Circuit held that in claims alleging the malicious use of force by prison guards the wantonness of the attack, rather than the degree of injury suffered, is the dispositive issue for courts reviewing such claims on summary …
Article • August 15, 2001 • from PLN August, 2001
Notes From the Unrepenitentiary: Whose Security? by Marilyn Buck Notes From The Unrepenitentiary: Whose Security? by Marilyn Buck Two children, both with mothers imprisoned at FCI Dublin, died within a two-week period. Both children were adolescent boys, aged 13 and 9, repectively. One of the children ran away from his …
Brief • 2001
Filed under: Telephones
c.u.r.e. Of Pennsylvania v Pa Public Utility Commission Pa Main App Brief of Petitioner Phone Rates 2001 • IN THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA C.U.R.E. OF PENNSYLVANIA, Petitioner v. NO. 1183 CD 2001 PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION, : Respondent MAIN BRIEF OF PETITIONER CITIZENS UNITED FOR THE REHABILITATION OF ERRANTS …
Kentucky Phone Rate Ruling by A federal district court in Kentucky held that the filed rate doctrine barred any claims for money damages against Phone Company and county jail defendants. However, injunctive relief was still available. The court questioned the legality of an exclusive service provider contract. In the August, …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Ohio 'Entrepreneur' Lands in Hot Water by An Ohio prisoner will spend an additional three years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to theft charges stemming from an elaborate credit card and telephone scam he ran from behind bars. Lonny Lee Bristow, 27, was already serving a 9year …
Work Stoppage at Idaho CCA Prison by Five weeks after it opened, the Idaho Correctional Center (ICC), went on lockdown following a non-violent protest by prisoners there. Corrections Corporation of America operates the $50 million 1,250-bed prison. In early July 2000, CCA began moving Idaho prisoners from its New Mexico …
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