Inmate Communications
All the News that Fits the Prison
Article on money-saving, community-building prison newscasts echoes JPay We came across an interesting article this week by Michael Rosenwald in the Washington Post – The News Behind Bars – which describes a closed-circuit newscast at the Maryland Correctional Training Center in Hagerstown, Md. According to the Post article, the newscast, produced and conducted by inmates, [...]
Gunn Misses Mark, Then Hits It
JPay comments on commentator’s column The Muskegon Chronicle columnist Steve Gunn wrote in an op-ed two weeks ago about the “postcard only” policy at the Muskegon County Jail. The facility had been considering the suspension of sealed letters to inmates, instead allowing only stamped postcards to be delivered. According to Gunn’s column, a group called [...]
Stay in Touch to Stay Out
JPay communication services help reduce recidivism Most incarcerated individuals share a singular goal for their time spent as guests of the State: to get out and stay out. Unfortunately, a study published last month by Pew research found that the national offender recidivism rate has held steady, with about four of every ten inmates returning [...]
Emailing an Inmate or Offender.
Staying in close contact with a friend or family member who is incarcerated is really important to their rehabilitation and their mental health and well being. But inmate email is not all that you might think. Yes, you can e-mail a prisoner, but the truth is in some instances they don’t get the correspondence right [...]
Inmate Email
Contrary to popular belief, inmates don’t have unlimited access to the internet. I read stories all of the time about prisoners on Facebook and Twitter, but the truth is that most inmates don’t smuggle in cell phones and break the rules. Many prisoners are simply there to serve out their time peacefully and without incident. [...]
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