Prison News
Facebook, Felons, and the Contraband Cell Phone Challenge
First, thank you all for your comments since we’ve updated the look and feel of our blog. We hope you find it easier to navigate and find the posts that are of most interest to you. Our last post in particular – regarding “cell” phones in UK facilities – drew a lot of comments (commenter [...]
“Cell” Phones
A pilot program being considered by the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Justice could put phones in inmate’s individual units, or cells. Officials cite two rationales for the program: first that it could reduce the growing quantity of contraband mobile phones being smuggled into the facilities and second, that it could reduce the lines and waiting [...]
Mama’s Coming Home
Thousands of female inmates in California could be released as part of a new program implemented by the state this week, reports the CNN blog This Just In. The Alternative Custody Program, which became law in 2010, allows inmates with less than two years to serve on sentences for nonviolent, nonsexual, non-serious crimes to be [...]
You Should Be Ashamed of Yourself, Miami-Dade
“Deplorable” conditions at Miami-Dade County jails revealed in DOJ report At JPay, we know that nothing is more frustrating to our customers than substandard conditions at their loved one’s correctional institution, except perhaps discovering that the prevalence and persistence such conditions is the result of systematic, avoidable indifference on the part of the facility or [...]
Prison Pets
Inmates in Pennsylvania and Nebraska experience the therapeutic effects of domestic animals Normally we use the space on this blog to comment on aspects of the correctional system that relate, even tangentially, to us at JPay. This being a post-Irene, still-kind-of-grey Monday morning, we thought we’d stray from that tendency a bit. We saw these [...]
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