Jackson v. Taylor

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JOYCE HENS GREEN, District Judge.

This is an action by two prisoners at the Lorton Reformatory against officials governing the prison system of the District of Columbia. Plaintiffs allege that the defendant prison officials have violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by conspiring to fix the price of local telephone calls from the prison at the rate of 25 cents for five minutes or less “with the intention of monopolizing and boycotting the free access of plaintiffs’ rights to regularly fixed telephone prices set by the State of Virginia” (wherein the prisons are…