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- Title
How Corporations Turned Prison Tablets Into a Predatory Scheme.
- Authors
Bardelli, Tommaso; Zarook, Ruqaiyah; McCarthy, Derick
- Abstract
The article focuses on New York City had signed a contract with JPay, a subsidiary of prison telecommunication giant Securus Technologies, to distribute "mini-tablets" to the prison population in 2017. It mentions that JPay calculated that the profits from the associated fees would outweigh the cost of providing the tablets without charge. It also mentions that corrections officials have outsourced this spending to private corporations, which have turned prison services into a multibillion-dollar retail industry.
- Subjects
TABLET computers; JPAY Inc.; PRISON population; CORPORATE profits; CORRECTIONS (Criminal justice administration); RETAIL industry
- Publication
Dissent (0012-3846), 2022, Vol 69, Issue 2, p129
- ISSN
0012-3846
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/dss.2022.0031