Person in Handcuffs hold a Tablet Computer on the Table closeup; Shutterstock ID 1032093895; Project Name: ; Requested By: ; Client/Licensee: Credit: Shutterstock / Sabphoto Over 300 inmates in Idaho ...

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 ...

Several inmates said they are at a disadvantage because those who still have tablets can spend unlimited amounts of time working on emails, while they are limited to 15 minutes for each computer use.

This is part of Time, Online, a Future Tense series on how technology is changing prison. Just a few companies control prisoners’ access to phone and video calls, educational resources, data storage, ...

Predators, profiteers, opportunists — those are a few of the labels critics have applied to companies that supply electronic tablets in America’s prisons. The tablets give an incarcerated audience ...

In a series of emails circulated during February 2022, which were overlaid with the red, green and yellow colors of the African freedom flag, the company JPay purported to “celebrate Black History ...

Since 2011, more than 500,000 of the 1.2 million people who received prepaid cards from JPay were forced to pay fees to retrieve their money, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said. By Emily ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ordered a leading prison banker to pay $6 million for siphoning off taxpayer-funded benefits and forcing recently incarcerated individuals to pay hidden ...

Following JPay’s Monday statement to the media, Blackwell told TheWrap in a direct message, “It appears the draft box has been restored (although we do not know if people who lost their data already ...

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 ...

JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) uses JPay which is a website and mobile application that allows individuals to contact their incarcerated loved ones. When it works, the ...

For incarcerated people like me, access to communications comes at a steep price. By John J. Lennon John J. Lennon is a contributing writer for The Marshall Project and a contributing editor for ...