I Hate J-Pay

03/30/2016

Prison calls, processing money sent to prisoners; everyone wants to make a profit off of the impoverished families with loved ones in prison.

One phone call at a time, American law enforcement agencies are making billions off the families of prisoners to pay for everything from new jails to police cruisers.

05/06/2015

JPay is moving to privatize communications between families and their loved ones behind bars, including video visits and email. While they charge high fees, there is a hidden cost: JPay becomes an owner of anything it transmits. Your letters, art, whatever: if you send it via JPay, they own it, can reproduce it, sell it, profit from it, without your permission and without paying you a cent.

Update: after a slew of negative postings on social media, JPay has changed its policy. It no longer will assert ownership of family communications?

JPay, a company that provides digital communications systems to corrections facilities in at least 19 states, is charging inmates and their families an unusual fee to stay in touch: the intellectual property rights to everything sent through its network.

04/21/2015

America has figured out another way to suck money from prisoners. Is anyone under the delusion that this will do anything but ensure that more people return to prison--either because they have less money, because they walk out of prison having just suffered one last insult, or some combination.

Unlike consumer debit cards, prison-issued cards are unregulated and subject to exorbitant fees

09/29/2014

For prisoners to create meaningful personal change and become an asset to society upon release strong family relationship ties are needed. JPAY charges and outrageous fees that destroys the prisoners attempts to write letters to loved ones and family members .JPAY interferes with everything that saves society from the burden of re-incarceration, thus I HATE JPAY!

06/27/2014

Front page New York Times article slams profiteering by JPay: high fees for sending money orders to prisoners; and now delivering MP3's.

What the article missed is that these high fees are being used by prisons to subsidize (and privatize) their operations, including vital security functions. As part of the deal with prison officials which allow JPay to charge such high fees, JPay is required to provide alleged "gang intelligence" to prison officials--based on analyses of call patterns, people calling multiple prisoners, etc. the accuracy and usefulness of such "intelligence" is highly questionable. The fact that family members are forced to pay for this "service" is outrageous.

The jails and prisons get commissions from phone and financial companies, which then charge very high rates to inmates who have no other choices.

05/22/2014

J-Pay isn't the only injustice found in prisons.

In solitary, a woman's attacker can closely watch her sleep, use the toilet, or undress.

01/03/2014

Parents forced to pay for IDOC gang intelligence work.

The response to our FOIA request is revealing. JPay does not merely process payments for prisoners. It also tracks every payment by every person to discover who is linked to who. If a friend sends money to more than one prisoner, they know. They can track these overlapping relationships out to several degrees of separation.

All of this information is then turned over to gang intelligence officers.

In addition, 50 cents of every fee collected by JPay is kicked back to the prison. So both JPay and the Department now make a profit off of money people send to their loved ones.

12/28/2013

Recently There was a Freedom of Imformation request submitted to IDOC about the contract between IDOC and JPAY not surprising IDOC is stalling. They need more time to locate the contract that they are imposing on family members. I will keep you posted when the response finally arrives.

12/17/2013

Available JPay Services
Send Money Rates
Rates
Online
$ 0.00 - 20.00 $4.95
$ 20.01 - 100.00 $7.95
$ 100.01 - 200.00 $9.95
$ 200.01 - 300.00 $11.95
By Phone
$ 0.00 - 20.00 $5.95
$ 20.01 - 100.00 $8.95
$ 100.01 - 200.00 $10.95
$ 200.01 - 300.00 $12.95
These are the charges that JPAY charges to send money orders to your loved ones in prison.Merely another method to take advantage of the low income families and destroy all methods of rehabilitation.

12/11/2013

Now if JPAY is using the mail to commit these acts shouldn't the postal inspector look at this. I have found other States with simaliar problems. Read the articles yourself and I will post more soon. I HATE JPAY!

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