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Vinelink.com (VINE) is a national website in the United States that allows victims of crime, and the general public, to track the movements of prisoners held by the various states and territories. The first four letters in the websites name, "vine", are an acronym for "Victim Information and Notification Everyday".
Vine was an American short-form video hosting service where users could share up to 6-second-long looping video clips.Founded in June 2012 by Rus Yusupov, Dom Hofmann and Colin Kroll, [1] [2] [3] the company was bought by Twitter, Inc., four months later for $30 million. [4]
Ameelio, a nonprofit startup that intends to replace inmate-paid video calling in prisons with a free service, is making inroads against the companies that have dominated the space for decades.
Jails and prisons tend to choose their providers based on which company will be able to pay said facility the most revenue in kickbacks. [10] In the United States, the inmate telephone market is dominated by two providers, Global Tel Link (GTL) and Securus Technologies, with Global Tel-Link controlling approximately 50% of the market and Securus with 20%. [2]
According to a Mic article from 2016, 18 of Vine's biggest stars formed an alliance and essentially staged an intervention for Vine's top executives. At this point, the early success of Vine had ...
Inmate Name Register Number Status Details Colin Ferguson C39361 Serving a life sentence. [4] Perpetrator of the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting in which he murdered 6 people on a passenger train. [5] [6] Gerald Garson: Served a 3.5-10 year sentence, paroled in 2009 Former New York Supreme Court Justice, convicted of accepting bribes [7 ...
Minnesota has joined a growing list of states that plan to count prisoners at their home addresses instead of at the prisons they're located when drawing new political districts. Minnesota Gov ...
Video visitation is the use of videoconferencing and/or analog CCTV systems and software to allow inmates and visitors to visit at a distance as opposed to face-to-face. It allows people with a computer, internet, webcam, and credit card to communicate with inmates at select jails.