JPay, a tech company that services incarcerated individuals, said Monday that a recent system change that impacted writing capabilities was made in error and had been ...
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with about 5 percent of the world's population, but 25 percent of the world's prisoners. For some businessmen, that represents a big ...
Inmates are getting their hands on technology. JPay, a private corrections-related service, recently announced that it’s manufacturing a tablet specifically customized for inmates. The JP5mini will be ...
Miramar-based JPay has agreed to be acquired by Dallas-based Securus Technologies. JPay provides electronic payments, email, and entertainment and educational related apps to prisoners, currently ...
Over the past decade, dozens of states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons have contracted with private companies to provide their incarcerated populations with electronic tablets. These secure devices ...
BOISE — Idaho prison officials say 364 inmates hacked the JPay tablets they use for email, music and games and collectively transferred nearly a quarter million dollars into their own accounts. Idaho ...
Pat Taylor holding a picture of her son, Eddie, who is serving 20-year prison sentence at Bland Correctional Center in Virginia. This story was published by The Center for Public Integrity, a ...
The United States incarcerates more of its population than any other country. From 1990 to 2010, the number of people serving time in state and federal prisons more than doubled and is now nearly 2.3 ...