Articles by Stephen Raher

Show Me the Money: Tracking the Companies that Have a Lock on Sending Funds to Incarcerated People

Loaded on March 1, 2022 by Stephen Raher, Tiana Herring published in Prison Legal News March, 2022, page 22

Filed under: Private Prisons, JPay, Inc., Private Contractors, Private Phone Contractors, Global Tel*Link Corp. Location: United States of America.

We looked at all fifty state departments of corrections to figure out which companies hold the contracts to provide money-transfer services and what the fees are to use these services.

by Stephen Raher and Tiana Herring, Prison Policy Initiative

As people in prison are increasingly expected to …

Texas Prisons, We’ve Got Some Questions About Your Commissary Vendors

Loaded on April 2, 2019 by Stephen Raher published in Prison Legal News April, 2019, page 28

Filed under: Commissary. Location: Texas.

by Stephen Raher, Prison Policy Initiative

One of the original inspirations for the Prison Policy Initiative’s May 2018 report on prison commissaries earlier [see: PLN, Aug. 2018, p.1] was a 2010 article from the Texas Tribune that analyzed $95 million in purchases at prison commissaries in …