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The state of Kentucky and Securus Technologies charged prison inmates steep prices. Then the tables turned. A Herald-Leader review of 1,700 pages of documents reveals the deception that stunned ...
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
Securus was founded as TZ Holdings Inc. in 1986 in Dallas, Texas. The company changed its name from TZ Holdings Inc. to Securus Technologies in April 2009. [6] During the 2010s, Securus was one of a number of companies which provided telephone service to inmates in US prisons. [7]
In 2021, TDCJ began issuing Securus tablets to prison inmates for free. Inmates could use them to make a phone call instead of having to wait for a phone to become available.
JPay is a privately held information technology and financial services provider focused on serving the United States prison system.With headquarters in Miramar, Florida, the company contracts with state, county, and federal prisons and jails to provide technologies and services including money transfer, email, video visitation and parole and probation payments to approximately 1.5 million ...
The Inmate Video Visitation System concept was first developed and installed by Datapoint Corporation for the Brevard County Jail Complex in Brevard County, Florida. The world's first inmate video visitation system was installed in late 1995 followed shortly thereafter with a similar installation at the St. Lucie County Jail in Ft. Pierce ...
In St. Clair County, that lawsuit alleges, Securus pays the county 50% of the $12.99 price tag for every 20-minute video call and 78% of the 21 cents per minute cost of every phone call.
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]