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> The purpose is to limit the ability of people to sneak in paper bathed in fentanyl

Or is it to make even more profit on the backs of prisoners & their families for companies who win juicy contracts from the government? This was being done by private companies before fentanyl.

Look into Jpay - they do a lot of slimy things and make a lot of money doing so. The free market in action I guess.

https://theappeal.org/prison-tablets-ipads-jpay-securus-gtl/

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With the switch to this paradigm at a certain detention center, the time to get an inmate mail simply addressed to them with an envelope effectively tripled, up from what was already like a week, and if you included any irregular shaped paper or cute stuff it’d get mangled in the process. Ask me how I know.

It’s certainly an exploitative service taking advantage of a captive audience. I do think the substances thing is making many more smaller jails consider it.

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