PEARSON v. SHERIFF OF BRISTOL COUNTY

SJC-13110.

489 Mass. 691 (2022)

KELLIE PEARSON & others, v. SHERIFF OF BRISTOL COUNTY & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 17, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ian D. Roffman , Special Assistant Attorney General, for Sheriff of Bristol County.

Jason D. Frank for Securus Technologies, Inc.

James R. Pingeon for the plaintiffs.

Daniel Greenfield , of Illinois, Kathrina Szymborski , of New York, & Maggie Filler , for American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Lowy, Cypher, Wendlandt, & Georges, JJ.


The office of the sheriff of Bristol County (sheriff's office) contracted with a third-party vendor, Securus Technologies, Inc. (Securus), to provide inmate calling services in its correctional facilities. Pursuant to this contract, Securus paid to the sheriff's office a percentage of its monthly revenues and annual lump-sum amounts....

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