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Securus Technologies is a technology communications firm serving department of corrections facilities and incarcerated individuals across the country. [1][2] The company is a subsidiary of Aventiv Technologies. In the past, the company has faced criticism over phone call pricing, data security, monopoly [3] and product innovation.
An inmate telephone system, also known as an Inmate Calling Service (ICS) or Inmate telephone service, is telephone service intended for use by inmates in correctional facilities in the United States. Telephone service for inmates allows for their rehabilitation by allowing consistent communication with their family and legal counsel while ...
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. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, 74% of jails dropped ...
In 2012, during a meeting with county officials and a Securus representative, Swanson said the system needed to be “a revenue generating machine.”But in a recent interview with Holt, Swanson ...
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 ...
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In 2011, Securus, Inc acquired Zoombak, LLC from TruePosition, Inc., a subsidiary of Liberty Media. Zoombak, Inc was known for developing GPS -based products that help people track things, ranging from teenage drivers to employees, pets and automobiles.
The suits allege hundreds of jails in Michigan eliminated in-person visitation for family members, instead requiring Securus software be used for all communication. Under the contract, "Securus pays the County 50 percent of the $12.99 price tag for every 20-minute video call and 78 percent of the $0.21 per minute cost of every phone call," the ...