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: Sentencing Law and Policy

Interesting report on marketing technology to a confined consumer

By Douglas A. Berman

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Businessweek has this notable new piece discussing some private companies' shrewd efforts to tailor technology products to inmate populations. The piece is headlined "The Apple of the U.S. Prison System," and here are excerpts: The surge [in US prison populations in recent decades] has been good for a constellation of corrections contractors, including JPay, which handles money transfers, e-mail communications, and video visitations for more than 1.4 million inmates in hundreds of prisons across about 35 states. So good that the decade-old business last year expanded into selling inmates its own line of ?prison-proof? MP3 players ? what it dubs the JP3. ?We?re looking for products that an inmate would want to buy and a corrections facility would accept,? says founder and Chief Executive Officer Ryan Shapiro, 35...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 14, 2012 (boomark / email).

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