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Two Victories in New York’s Struggle Against Unjust Telephone Contract
Loaded on April 15, 2007
by Rachel Meeropol
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2007, page 20
Two Victories in New York's Struggle Against Unjust Telephone Contract
Filed under:
Civil Procedure,
Limitations,
Telephone Rates,
Contractor Liability.
Location:
New York.
by Annette Dickerson, Rachel Meeropol, and Lauren Melodia
Families of those incarcerated by New York State finally won some justice this winter in their fight against a prison telephone contract that charges families of prisoners 630 percent more for collect ...
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