JPay, the private corrections service, last week launched the JP5mini tablet at a price of $70. JPay currently service a little under two million prisoners in the United States of America across ...

Inmates are getting their hands on technology. JPay, a private corrections-related service, recently announced that it’s manufacturing a tablet specifically customized for inmates. The JP5mini will be ...

Learning from the success of JPay's popular JP4 tablet (currently in the hands of over 60,000 inmates), the JP5mini maintains the same compact size of 4.3 inches, which is an important convenience ...

Thomas Erumgold has done multiple "tours of duty," a euphemism he uses to refer to time behind bars. Prison, he says, is a lonely place to be, and keeping in touch with friends and family on the ...

Inmates could end up in iJails. JPay, a 9-year-old private corrections contractor, is trying to get prisons across the country to put more of its money-making tablets into inmates’ hands with the ...

A JPay representative said on Tuesday that while “the most recent release inadvertently failed to recognize custom settings and reverted some facilities back to default settings impacting drafting and ...

Over the past decade, dozens of states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons have contracted with private companies to provide their incarcerated populations with electronic tablets. These secure devices ...

Miramar-based JPay has agreed to be acquired by Dallas-based Securus Technologies. JPay provides electronic payments, email, and entertainment and educational related apps to prisoners, currently ...

Inmates in five Idaho prisons exploited a vulnerability on their JPay tablets to steal almost $225,000 worth of credits, according to officials. The Idaho Department of Correction said 364 prisoners ...

BOISE — An issue with a service provided to inmates at five Idaho Department of Correction facilities has been called everything from a "glitch" to a "hack.” Almost $225,000 in credits made its way ...