Literal locked-down market biz Securus Technologies has settled a class-action lawsuit over illegally recorded prison phone calls, promising to improve its systems while avoiding a massive damages bill stretching to tens of millions of dollars.
Two former prisoners and a criminal defense attorney sued the Texan company after it was revealed the prison communications provider had recorded more than 14,000 legally protected conversations between inmates and their lawyers in California.
The call recordings came to light after someone hacked the company’s system, found some 70 million stored conversations, and handed them over to journalists.
Securus claimed the recordings were the result of a software glitch, rather than an intentional act, and has stuck to that explanation as the case has wound its way through th ..
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