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September 20, 2022

Global Tel Link Will Pay $67 Million to Settle Claims It Seized Funds from Prisoners 
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Back in the United States, a for-profit company that operates prison
telephone lines has agreed to pay $67 million to settle a class-action
lawsuit brought by incarcerated people. Advocates say Global Tel Link
routinely pocketed deposits made by prisoners to prepaid phone accounts
and preyed on prisoners by charging them exorbitant rates of up to 100
times the actual cost of calls.


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