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 Tiana Herring, Stephen Raher 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 pay for everyday costs (food, ...

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 the previous ...