Mobile Company Sued Over Prison Phones

Prison Legal News sues Global Tel Link and MDOC over phone records

By: Michael Snowden | WKRG
Published: March 11, 2009

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A legal magazine dealing with prison
issues has sued the Mississippi Department of Corrections and a
prison phone service provider for access to contract records.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Hinds County Chancery Court.
MDOC officials referred questions to Mobile, Ala.-based Global Tel Link . An attorney for the company did not immediately return a
message asking for comment.
Prison Legal News, a nonprofit monthly publication that reports
on prison issues nationwide and has a wide readership inside
prisons, claims MDOC refused to provide a copy of its contract with
GTL as part of a research article on prison telephone services.
The magazine claims MDOC was the only state corrections
department to deny access.

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