Massachusetts contract archive
These contracts for telephone service to prisons and jails in Massachusetts were collected by Karina Wilkinson, Prisoner Legal Services of Massachusetts and the Prison Policy Initiative. Each is the current contract as of December 2021. Karina also prepared a fact sheet summarizing the contracts.
- Massachusetts State Department of Corrections: DOC request for responses (bid solicitation) | Contract | Securus bid | Amendment | Amendment 5 | Amendment 7 - Video Rates | Amendment 9 | February 2020 Rate Hike
- Barnstable County: contract | amendment - 14 cents
- Berkshire County: contract | amendment - 14 cents
- Bristol County: contract
- Dukes County: contract | December 2023 amendment
- Essex County: contract
- Franklin County: contract | amendment - 14 cents | December 2023 amendment
- Hampden County: contract | 1-year extension (through Sept. 2022) | 1-year extension (through Sept. 2023) | 1-year extension (through 2024)
- Hampshire County: contract
- Middlesex County: phone contract | tablet contract
- Norfolk County: contract
- Plymouth County: contract | amendment - mail-scanning add-on | amendment - COVID calls for immigration detainees
- Suffolk County: contract | amendment - 14 cents
- Worcester County: contract | amendment - 14 cents | December 2023 amendment
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