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November 12, 2015

Report: Firm Recorded Thousands of Attorney-Prisoner Phone Calls 
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In what appears to be a massive breach in attorney-client privilege in
the United States, The Intercept has obtained a trove of prisoner phone
records, including recorded calls between prisoners and their attorneys.
Attorney-client phone calls are privileged communications which are not
supposed to be recorded. But hacked phone records from Securus
Technologies—a leading provider of phone services in prisons and
jails—appear to include about 14,000 recorded attorney-prisoner
conversations. The company's contract specifically stipulates telephone
calls with attorneys are not to be recorded, and any calls that are
recorded must be destroyed. The ACLU said the revelations may constitute
"the most massive breach of the attorney-client privilege in modern U.S.
history."

 

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