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Recording of Nashville, Tennessee Jail Prisoners’ Attorney Calls Criticized
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2011, page 42
In February 2011 it was revealed that the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office in Nashville, Tennessee had recorded approximately 300 phone calls between jail prisoners and their lawyers, then gave the recordings to federal prosecutors.The calls were recorded despite the unwritten policy of the Sheriff’s Office not to listen to ...
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