<story><title>Prison Bankers Who Profit from the Inmates</title><url>http://time.com/3446372/criminal-justice-prisoners-profit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gergles</author><text>They also operate the e-mail system that can be used to send e-mail to&amp;#x2F;from inmates (using a JPay tablet, of course). You have to purchase &lt;i&gt;&amp;#x27;stamps&amp;#x27;&lt;/i&gt;. For &lt;i&gt;e-mails&lt;/i&gt;.[1]&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpayinc.com/email_videograms.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jpayinc.com&amp;#x2F;email_videograms.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;One stamp corresponds to one 6000 character message (about the length of one handwritten page), or one attachment.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;JPay’s correctional email service is faster than regular mail, with inmates usually receiving emails within &lt;i&gt;48 hours&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;quot; (emphasis added)&lt;p&gt;Looking up the pricing for a random facility[2], it&amp;#x27;s $18 for 40 &amp;#x27;stamps&amp;#x27;, each one of which is good for 1 small attachment or &amp;#x27;page&amp;#x27; of text. This is fucking extortion.&lt;p&gt;2: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpay.com/Facility-Details/Kentucky-Adult-Institutions/Kentucky-State-Penitentiary.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jpay.com&amp;#x2F;Facility-Details&amp;#x2F;Kentucky-Adult-Institut...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Prison Bankers Who Profit from the Inmates</title><url>http://time.com/3446372/criminal-justice-prisoners-profit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Fjolsvith</author><text>The prison phone systems are also bilking families.  In the Alaska prison system, I had to call collect to my family.  Phone calls were limited to 15 minutes and they cost my family $33 per call.  I hated calling them because I felt so bad about that cost.</text></comment>