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Prisoners telephone calls taped in NY | Used in DV cases

Prisoners? groups and defense lawyers are objecting, but New York City jails changed policy in 2007 to permit the tape recording of out-going telephone calls. Such tape recording was already routine in some New York State and federal prisons. The digital system was installed in some jails in 2008 and was completed in 2010 according to a spokesman for the city?s Correction Department. Signs right next to the telephones warn prisoners that their calls may be taped.

Full post as published by Updates in Michigan Family Law on February 28, 2011 (boomark / email).