January 31, 2019, 7:45 pm
In a lawsuit, Securus Technologies said the department opted for a “wish list of goodies” over lower rates for inmates and their loved ones.
The Florida Department of Corrections used the procurement process for a new phone contract to ask for “value-added” perks such as inmate tracking technology, security upgrades and iPhones for its staff, instead of focusing on affordable calling rates, because it wasn’t getting what it needed from the state Legislature, a federal lawsuit claims.
Securus Technologies, the department’s longtime phone vendor, filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in federal court, as first reported by the legal newswire Law360. Securus also owns JPay, which provides tablets, video calling and inmate banking services in Florida prisons.
The company claims the state agency “improperly subverted its inmate-telephone-contract procurement … so the Department could obtain a panoply of goods and services that had nothing to do with inmate telephone services.” Because it focused on lower call rates, Securus lost out on the contract in favor of competitor Global Tel Link, which offered more perks, the lawsuit claims.
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Author: Florida Action Committee
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