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During the 2010s, Securus was one of a number of companies which provided telephone service to individuals in US correctional facilities. [7] Securus was partially acquired by ABRY Partners from Castle Harlan in 2013 for $640 million. [8] [9] The company was the target of a data breach of about 70 million records of phone calls in July 2015. [10]
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]
Securus won its first contract in 2006 to sell for-profit inmate telephone service to all Kentucky prisons. Later, it branched out to sell other digital products to this captive audience.
Securus Technologies “gets a big chunk of my paycheck,” said one prisoner’s wife. “That’s true for a lot of us.” KY inmates and their families spend millions on for-profit computer tablets
Global Tel Link (GTL), formerly known as Global Telcoin, Inc. and Global Tel*Link Corporation, is a Reston, Virginia–based telecommunications company, founded in 1989, that provides Inmate Calling Service (ICS) through "integrated information technology solutions" for correctional facilities [1] [2] which includes inmates payment and deposit, facility management, and "visitation solutions". [2]
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The tax was to be imposed on the person paying for the communications services (such as a customer of a telephone company) but, under 26 U.S.C. § 4291, is collected from the customer by the "person receiving any payment for facilities or services" on which the tax is imposed (i.e., is collected by the telephone company, which files a quarterly ...
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