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Brief • December 31, 2025
Filed under: Global Tel*Link Corp
State of Tennessee DOC and GTL Contract 01-01-23 to 12-31-2025 Part 1 NASPO/STATE OF NEVADA MASTER AGREEMENT Master Agreement Number: Solicitation Number: 99SWC-S1154 Title: Inmate Communications Government Entity: State of Nevada, Department of Administration, Purchasing Division Address: 515 E Mussel' St, Ste 300 City, State, Zip Code: Carson City, NV …
Brief • December 31, 2025
Filed under: Global Tel*Link Corp
State of Tennessee DOC and GTL Contract 01-01-23 to 12-31-2025 Part 2 STATE OF NEVADA COOPERATIV E CONTRA CT ATTACHMENT E SCOPE OF WORK Inmate Co mmunications SOI/', \ Revised: September 2022 Page 16 of 17 Cooperali ve Contract SCOPE OF WORK Category 2: Inmate Kiosks and Tablets Category 3: …
Albert v. GLOBAL TELLINK CORP, MD, Memorandum Opinion, Telephone Rates, 2025 Case 8:20-cv-01936-LKG Document 487 Filed 10/15/25 Page 1 of 7 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND ASHLEY ALBERT, et al., Plaintiffs, v. GLOBAL TEL*LINK CORP., et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) …
Publication • September 15, 2025
Letter to FCC re Incarcerated People's Communication Services-09-15-2025 September 15, 2025 Chairman Brendan Carr Commissioner Anna Gomez Commissioner Olivia Trusty Federal Communications Commission 50 L Street, NE Washington, DC 20554 Re: Incarcerated People’s Communications Services, WC Docket Nos. 23-62, 12-375 Dear Chairman Carr, Commissioners Gomez and Trusty: The ninety-five undersigned …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
FCC Backtracks on 2024 Order to Cut Prison Phone and Video Rates by Half by On June 30, the Federal Communications Commission announced a two-year postponement of a rule to lower the price of phone and video calls in prisons and jails. As PLN reported, the FCC voted in 2024 …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
JPay Loses Bid to Revoke Class Certification in Washington Prisoners’ Challenge to Crummy Products and Service by Over five years ago, in May 2020, Washington prisoners Michael Linear and Lonnie Burton filed a complaint in state court against prison telecom JPay LLC, which held the exclusive contract with the state …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Free Calls in Massachusetts Lead to Defunded Prison Programs by In December 2023, Massachusetts became the fifth state to provide free phone calls in its prisons and the first in all local jails. Video calling and e-messaging were also made available at no cost [See: PLN, Mar. 2024, p. 15]. …
Albert v. Global Tellink Corp, MD, Memorandum Opinion and Order, Telephone Rates, 2025 Case 8:20-cv-01936-LKG Document 439 Filed 06/13/25 Page 1 of 17 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND (SOUTHERN DIVISION) Ashley Albert, et al., * Plaintiffs * v. * Global Tel*Link Corp., et al., …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
GTL/ViaPath Ordered to Pay $3 Million for Violations of Consumer Protection Laws by Global Tel*Link (GTL), doing business as ViaPath Technologies, is one of the nation’s largest providers of carceral communications services, including phones, video calling, and e-messaging. Its subsidiaries include Telmate, LLC and TouchPay Holdings, LLC; the latter provides …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Smart Communications Files for Bankruptcy Protection by Smart Communications Holding, Inc., provides a variety of communications services in prisons and jails nationwide, including phone calls, video calling, tablets and e-messaging. It’s best known for its mail scanning program, MailGuard, which digitizes correspondence sent to prisoners and provides the scans on …
GTL, Co-Defendant Agree to $21.3 Million Settlement with HRDC in Price-Fixing Lawsuit by On October 31, 2024, preliminary approval was granted to a settlement reached with the second of three prison telecom giants accused of illegal price-fixing. The suit was filed in June 2020 in United States District Court for …
Albert v. GLOBAL TELLINK CORP, MD, Memorandum Opinion and Order, Telephone Rates, 2025 Case 8:20-cv-01936-LKG Document 492 Filed 10/31/25 Page 1 of 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MARYLAND ASHLEY ALBERT, et al., Plaintiffs, Civil Action No. 20-cv-01936-LKG vs. GLOBAL TEL*LINK CORP., et al., Defendants. JOINT STATUS REPORT REGARDING …
Pay-for-Play Tablets: The Costly New Prison Paradigm by Historically, prisons and jails have been loathe to give prisoners access to technology. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) didn’t even allow prisoners regular access to telephone calls until 2009. Access to internet-based services, which the non-incarcerated take for granted, is …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Washington Spends Only Fraction of Fund to Improve Prisoner Welfare by On October 25, 2024, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) announced that it tapped $1.3 million from its Incarcerated Individual Betterment Fund (IIBF)—money that had not been spent, the agency added. Funded 90% by kickbacks from prisoner phone calls …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
First Circuit Rejects Request by Securus and Pay Tel to Stay FCC Prison Phone Rate Caps by On November 18, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued two orders denying motions filed by Securus Technologies, LLC, and Pay Tel Communications, Inc., seeking to stay implementation …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Securus/JPay Video Calling Service Potentially Threatened by New Rate Caps by On November 19, 2024, prison telecom Securus Technologies, Inc., along with subsidiary JPay, notified users of services provided by the firms at prisons and jails of steps being taken to comply with a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order. …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Pigeonly Flies Into Telecom Turbulence, Declares Bankruptcy by Pigeonly, Inc., a prison communication startup founded by former prisoner Frederick Hutson, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on January 26, 2024, in United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada in Las Vegas. Pigeonly contracts with jails and prisons to …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Kentucky Prisoners Take Advantage of Securus Software Glitch for $1 Million by On August 24, 2024, Kentucky’s Lexington Herald-Leader reported that prisoners at several state prisons took advantage of a software vulnerability in state-­issued Securus Technologies tablets to fraudulently create over $1 million in digital credits. The counterfeit funds were …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Electronic Tablets, Securus
Facing Bankruptcy, Securus Promotes Prison Tablets by Lenders to Aventiv Technologies, parent of prison telecom Securus Technologies, have given it until 2025 to sell or face bankruptcy. The company owes $1.3 billion in debt that it hasn’t been able to refinance, since the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began preparations to …
FCC Slashes Prison and Jail Phone Rates, Caps Video Call Cost, Eliminates “Site Commission” Kickbacks by On August 26, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published its final rule in the Federal Register, formalizing rulemaking that the agency issued the previous month which significantly reduces the cost of phone and …
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