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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Wayne Snitzky was 18 years old when he was sentenced to prison for murdering a girl ...
BOISE — An issue with a service provided to inmates at five Idaho Department of Correction facilities has been called everything from a "glitch" to a "hack.” Almost $225,000 in credits made its way ...
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 ...
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 ...