How Companies Like JPay Are Making Millions Charging Prisoners to Send An Email | WIRED
'Inside prisons, e-messaging companies are quietly building a money-making machine virtually unhindered by competition—a monopoly that would be intolerable in the outside world. '
'It’s based in a simple formula: Whatever it costs to send a message, prisoners and their loved ones will find a way to pay it. '
'With many prisons reaping a roughly 5-cent commission per message, prison systems that use JPay stand to collect $710,000 on e-messages alone. '
'But Jones, who spends about $40 a month on JPay stamps, could not afford to send photos of her cousins’ children. '
'Nearly half of all state prison systems now have some form of e-messaging: JPay’s services are available to prisoners in 20 states, including Louisiana. '
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Another perspective on this, very R anon (such wow):
However, if you find yourself in a jail, make sure you put on the record at every court appearance that you are being denied your right to a fair trial by the limitations imposed on your communication by agents acting under the care of the state.
Also, fuck this sub's inability to format bullet points. Deal with my whitespace, bitches.