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CAPTIVE AUDIENCE: HOW COMPANIES MAKE MILLIONS CHARGING PRISONERS...

• https://www.wired.com, by VICTORIA LAW

For companies like JPay, the business model is simple: Whatever it costs to send a message, prisoners and their families will find a way to pay it.

LAST JULY, AS she has for the past 10 years, Dianne Jones spent 45 minutes on a city bus heading to the local WalMart. There, under fluorescent lights, she scanned rows of brightly colored birthday cards to pick out the perfect greeting for her son—let's call him Tim—who is imprisoned more than 100 miles from his mother's home just outside New Orleans. The card she settled on was dark brown with trees and a birthday message that read, "For the best son in the world."


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