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New Jersey Prison Phone Class-action Suit Against Global Tel*Link Continues

Loaded on Aug. 2, 2016 by Derek Gilna published in Prison Legal News August, 2016, page 26
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates. Location: New Jersey.

A New Jersey federal district court denied a motion to dismiss filed by prison telecom giant Global Tel*Link (GTL) and its subsidiary DSI-ITI in a class-action lawsuit alleging predatory practices in providing phone service to New Jersey state prisoners.

On September 8, 2014, Judge William J. Martini held that although ...

 

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