Perhaps the most lasting criticism of the American prison system as it exists today lies in a fundamental disagreement over the purpose of incarceration. Beyond removing dangerous individuals from ...

JPay, the private corrections service, last week launched the JP5mini tablet at a price of $70. JPay currently service a little under two million prisoners in the United States of America across ...

Learning from the success of JPay's popular JP4 tablet (currently in the hands of over 60,000 inmates), the JP5mini maintains the same compact size of 4.3 inches, which is an important convenience ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Prisoners’ connections to the outside world had long been relegated to an outdated technology: landline telephones. But JPay, a prison contractor, has helped bring prison ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every inmate in Vermont's seven correctional facilities can now have supervised electronic communication with someone on the outside.Detainees at Northeast Correctional Complex were the first to get ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...