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In St. Clair County, that lawsuit alleges, Securus pays the county 50% of the $12.99 price tag for every 20-minute video call and 78% of the 21 cents per minute cost of every phone call.
In March 2024, lawsuits were filed, by multiple civil rights organizations, against Securus Technologies. The suits allege hundreds of jails in Michigan eliminated in-person visitation for family members, instead requiring Securus software be used for all communication.
Securus Technologies is a technology communications firm serving prisons across the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The company is a subsidiary of Aventiv Technologies. In the past, the company has faced criticism over phone call pricing, data security, monopoly [ 3 ] and product innovation.
Lawsuits in St. Clair, Genesee counties alleged counties, sheriffs, telecom companies in jails conspired to prohibit in-person contact visits to make money.
Jails and prisons tend to choose their providers based on which company will be able to pay said facility the most revenue in kickbacks. [10] In the United States, the inmate telephone market is dominated by two providers, Global Tel Link (GTL) and Securus Technologies, with Global Tel-Link controlling approximately 50% of the market and Securus with 20%. [2]
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Global Tel Link (GTL), formerly known as Global Telcoin, Inc. and Global Tel*Link Corporation, is a Reston, Virginia–based telecommunications company, founded in 1989, that provides Inmate Calling Service (ICS) through "integrated information technology solutions" for correctional facilities [1] [2] which includes inmates payment and deposit, facility management, and "visitation solutions". [2]
On Tuesday, a lawsuit making near-identical legal claims against DOGE's access to OPM records was filed by the AFL-CIO, a collection of government employee unions, and current and former ...