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MA: Supreme Judicial Court Rules All Prison/Jail Calls are Not Private

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

?Under today?s decision, prosecutors, for the first time, can listen to every telephone conversation a prisoner has with all family members, doctors, social workers, or priests,?? Garin said. ?This allows prosecutors to get any of those recordings for any reason and no reason.?? The Boston Globe Jailhouse calls are not private, SJC rules Conversations can be subpoenaed By Shelley Murphy Globe Staff / September 12, 2009 In a 4-to-3 decision that could have a sweeping impact on grand jury investigations and prisoner privacy, the state?s highest court ruled yesterday that prosecutors may subpoena recordings of telephone calls made from jail by inmates and people who are being held while awaiting trial. Rejecting contentions that the subpoenas violate prisoners? privacy rights, the Supreme Judicial Court found that both inmates and pretrial detainees have no reasonable expectation of privacy because they are clearly warned that all telephone calls are subject to monitoring and recording...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 12, 2009 (boomark / email).