Until yesterday, unless you had a family member or friend in prison, you most likely had never heard of JPay. That’s because all of its services are directed toward inmates and their families. Since ...

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 ...

Thomas Erumgold has done multiple "tours of duty," a euphemism he uses to refer to time behind bars. Prison, he says, is a lonely place to be, and keeping in touch with friends and family on the ...

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JPay, a company that provides digital communications systems to corrections facilities in at least 19 states, is charging inmates and their families an unusual fee to stay in touch: the intellectual ...

The first phase of the general purpose reloadable card provides a 30-percent discount on JPay money transfers as well as other advantages and benefits¹ DALLAS, Nov. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Securus ...

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 who receive some education while they're in prison are considerably less likely to wind up back behind bars. With current efforts to release thousands of prisoners convicted of nonviolent ...

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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 ...