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 ...

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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with about 5 percent of the world's population, but 25 percent of the world's prisoners. For some businessmen, that represents a big ...

JPay, a tech company that services incarcerated individuals, said Monday that a recent system change that impacted writing capabilities was made in error and had been ...

Missouri's prison system has no plans to abandon its exclusive multi-year contract with a Florida company that provides electronic devices for prisoners, despite news that inmates in Idaho recently ...

Until yesterday, unless you had a family member or friend in prison, you most likely had never heard of JPay. That’s because all of its services are directed toward inmates and their families. Since ...

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 ...

The Florida Department of Corrections defends its decision to turn to a company called JPay to digitize inmate mail by arguing the delivery system is crucial to preventing the flow of dangerous ...