Prison Phone Companies Are Recording Attorney-Client Calls Across the US
Lawyers say their conversations with incarcerated people are being recorded and analyzed by private companies in at least nine US states.
13 December 2021
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Lawyers say their conversations with incarcerated people are being recorded and analyzed by private companies in at least nine US states.
13 December 2021
For years, many of Brooklyn Defender Services’ incarcerated clients suspected that phone calls with their lawyers were being recorded. While such communications are ostensibly protected from surveillance under the Sixth Amendment of the US Constitution and the Federal Wiretap Act, there had been little trust that prison telecommunications vendor Securus Technologies was properly distinguishing between personal calls—which incarcerated people are told are monitored—and private calls with attorneys. “There was a general sense of unease,” Elizabeth Daniel Vasquez, director of the Science & Surveillance Project at Brooklyn Defender Services, told Motherboard. Then, around 2019, defense attorneys learned that prosecutors handed over ...
Prison Phone Companies Are Recording Attorney-Client Calls Across the US
Lawyers say their conversations with incarcerated people are being recorded and analyzed by private companies in at least nine US states.
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