TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: NY Families Win Court Victory on Prison Telephone Challenge

NY Families Win Court Victory on Prison Telephone Challenge

Danny Burstein (dannyb@panix.com)
Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:24:07 EST

- actually, that headline is premature. The "victory" is
that they can proceed with the lawsuit:

" On February 20, 2007 the [NYS] Court of Appeals ruled that a
constitutional challenge brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights
on behalf of New York family members who pay a grossly inflated rate to
receive phone calls from their loved ones in state prisons must be allowed
to move forward ...

rest:
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=EeshUGtg7P&Content=956

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Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Maybe oh-are-oh will be used to expand
the phone system in Skokie for the filthy satellite jail they afford
the shoppers (shop-lifters?) from Old Orchard while waiting to see the
judge. PAT]

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