Prison Bankers Who Profit from the Inmates

Post by jessaustin » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 4:19 AM UTC

donaldsfone wrote: post #129

jessaustin wrote: post #79

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Is this company in any sense a startup? They seem like a utility to me. I've never seen any ads they've run, and I can't imagine an ad volume that would justify $6 emails, so "sales and marketing" seems to be a euphemism for "lobbying, bribery, and personal entertainment slush-fund". This much basically-stolen money being thrown around is bound to erode ethics. It will surprise no one if multiple principals of this f…

pEOPLe you're all talking out of total ignorance. Jpay has huge capex - since none of you know anything about business ill explain - they spend millions upon millions of dollars deploying networks and computer banks in prisons for inmates to access these services. Now you know why their margins are high? Understand why they charge for email? If they were gouging customers people would send snail mail. You are all pla…

Nice sock-puppet, Shapiro. I hope you lose the rest of your hair.

Post by Fjolsvith » Sun, Oct 05, 2014, 2:27 AM UTC

cgag wrote: post #60

Fjolsvith wrote: post #18

The prison phone systems are also bilking families. In the Alaska prison system, I had to call collect to my family. Phone calls were limited to 15 minutes and they cost my family $33 per call. I hated calling them because I felt so bad about that cost.

They normally charge outrageous amounts for long distance calls, which is basically all their calls. Last year the FCC limited the max rate of calls to 25 cents a minute, or 3.75 for a 15 minute call. Still outrageous, but at least not as insane. They usually charge much less for local calls, and there are a lot of services that will set up a number local to the prison and forward calls to cell phones. It's easy enou…

Unfortunately, most prisons don't allow calling to a cell phone in their rules. Violating it can result in full suspension of your phone privileges.

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