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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
HRDC Collaborates on Prison Telecom Cost Report to Washington Lawmakers by Chuck Sharman A report on prison telecom costs presented to state lawmakers in Washington on December 13, 2024, showed dramatic decreases nationwide in the price of calls from prisons and jails over the past decade. A similar drop was …
Guards Used “Blast Grenades” to Break Up Mob Attack in California Prison by On June 6, 2025, Julian Mendez, 46, a prisoner on death row at the Kern Valley State Prison in Riverside County, California, was killed by inmate Mario Renteria, 36, using a makeshift weapon, KGET in Bakersfield reported. …
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]. …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Florida County Makes Free Jail Phone Calls Available by On October 1, 2023, phone calls became free for some 860 jail detainees at the jail in Florida’s Alachua County, whose Board of Commissioners voted for the change six months earlier. That brought the cost from 21 cents per minute to …
Publication • April 1, 2024
Special Report, Visits and Phone Calls, NJ Office of the Corrections Ombudsperson (April 2024) Visits and Phone Calls NJ Office of the Corrections Ombudsperson, Special Report April 2024 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Sustaining relationships with loved ones through a period of incarceration can be difficult, but research suggests that doing so has …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Minnesota Prison on Lockdown After Protest Over Dirty Water, Lack of Phone Use and Out-of-Cell Time by Over Labor Day weekend 2023, approximately 100 prisoners refused to return to their cells at Minnesota Correctional Facility (MCF) in Stillwater. They were protesting limited access to showers, phones and recreation, which the …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Massachusetts Becomes the Fifth State to Make Prison Phone Calls Free by Until December 1, 2023, Massachusetts prisoners and their families paid 12 cents per minute for phone calls, 14 cents in jails, though the first 10 minutes there every month were free. That added up to about $25 million …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Ninth Circuit Revives Challenge by Federal Prisoner in Arizona to BOP’s 300-Minute Monthly Phone Cap by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 3, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit challenging a federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) …
Brief • July 6, 2023
Americans for Immigrant Justice v. US Dept of Homeland Security, DC, Memorandum Opinion, Conditions of Confinement, 2023 Case 1:22-cv-03118-CKK Document 103 Filed 07/06/23 Page 1 of 11 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AMERICANS JUSTICE, et al., FOR IMMIGRANT Plaintiffs, Civil Action No. 22-3118 (CKK) v. U.S. …
Brief • July 6, 2023
Americans for Immigrant Justice v. US Dept of Homeland Security, DC, Order Granting and Denying Motion to Sever and Transfer Venue, Conditions of Confinement, 2023 Case 1:22-cv-03118-CKK Document 102 Filed 07/06/23 Page 1 of 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE, et al., …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Tablet Advertising That Can Also Issue Discipline by Dave Mass by Dave Maas Imagine you’ve been arrested and are sitting in county lock-up. You need to make arrangements for bail, a lawyer, and a caretaker for your kids or pets. Maybe you need someone to …
Article • July 13, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright PLN has been reporting on the prison phone industry for at least the past 30 years, from its inception to its current stranglehold on most means of human contact between prisoners and the outside world. This month’s cover story by Alan …
Brief • December 6, 2021
Githieya v. GTL, GA, Class Action Settlement, Prepaid Telephone Account, 2021 Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 326-1 Filed 12/06/21 Page 1 of 81 Exhibit 1 Settlement Agreement Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 326-1 Filed 12/06/21 Page 2 of 81 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION BENSON …
Brief • December 6, 2021
Githieya v. GTL, GA, Declaration of Michael Caplan, Prepaid Telephone Account, 2021 Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 326-2 Filed 12/06/21 Page 1 of 28 Exhibit 2 Declaration of Michael A. Caplan Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 326-2 Filed 12/06/21 Page 2 of 28 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION BENSON …
Brief • December 6, 2021
Githieya v. GTL, GA, Declaration of Tiffany Janowicz, Prepaid Telephone Account, 2021 Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 326-3 Filed 12/06/21 Page 1 of 57 Exhibit 3 Declaration of Tiffaney Janowicz Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 326-3 Filed 12/06/21 Page 2 of 57 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION BENSON GITHIEYA, …
Brief • December 6, 2021
Githieya v. GTL, GA, Order Approving Class Action Settlement, Prepaid Telephone Accounts, 2021 Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 326 Filed 12/06/21 Page 1 of 50 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION BENSON GITHIEYA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. GLOBAL TEL LINK CORP., CIVIL ACTION NO: …
Brief • December 6, 2021
Githieya v. GTL, GA, Proposed Order Approving Settlement, Prepaid Telephone Accounts, 2021 Case 1:15-cv-00986-AT Document 326-4 Filed 12/06/21 Page 1 of 15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION BENSON GITHIEYA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CIVIL ACTION NO: 1:15-CV-00986-AT GLOBAL TEL LINK CORP., Defendant. [PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING …
Settlement Agreement Between USA and VT Dept of Corrections Under the ADA 2021 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS UNDER THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, DJ # 204-78-44 I. BACKGROUND & JURISDICTION 1. The parties (“Parties”) to this Settlement Agreement (“Agreement”) are the …
Brief • October 15, 2021
FCC Order Re Reply Comments for Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services, 2021 Federal Communications Commission DA 21-1297 Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services ) ) ) WC Docket No. 12-375 ORDER Adopted: October 15, 2021 Released: October …
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