Companies that control the prison telcom market are threatened by new federal regulations, so they're shifting focus to tablet services.
Securus Technologies and ViaPath Technologies control about 80% of the U.S. market for phone and video calls in prisons and jails. With new federal regulations threatening their profits, the companies are pivoting to tablets.
The vast majority of corporate profits in prison are extracted directly from inmates and their families. This compounds the economic disadvantage to the inmate’s community on top of idling a potential earner.
In the US, the poor are a resource for capital to extract and there’s no richer vein of poverty than what runs through the American legal system.
The vast majority of corporate profits in prison are extracted directly from inmates and their families. This compounds the economic disadvantage to the inmate’s community on top of idling a potential earner.
In the US, the poor are a resource for capital to extract and there’s no richer vein of poverty than what runs through the American legal system.