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Class Action Suits Challenge Rip-Off Prison and Jail Phone Rates
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1999, page 10
Suit Filed in Illinois On May 5, 1999, a class action suit was filed by Illinois consumers who receive collect calls from Illinois state and county jail prisoners alleging that they are forced to pay exorbitant phone rates as a result of an illegal conspiracy between phone companies, the Illinois ...
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