Some Texas prisons making money by forcing video only visitations

[OnlinePoker]

There’s nothing nice about jail. The food stinks. There’s nothing to do. People are in a bad mood. The best you can hope for is to get out quickly with minimal hassle. One of the few things you have to look forward to is a visit from a friend or a loved one—a brief face-to-face connection to remind you that the world is waiting on the other side of the glass. But some Texas jails are eliminating in-person visitation and requiring instead the use of a video visitation system sold by Dallas-based Securus Technologies. Critics say it’s an outrageous profiteering scheme that has no policy rationale and could actually deteriorate security at jails.

http://www.texasobserver.org/a-dallas-company-finds-profit-in-video-only-jail-visitations/

[notrightatall]

1. Seems a double down on prison phone call scams.

[randys1]

2. I am running out of things to say about disgusting people

and I bet my ass the owners of this company are republicans

[notadmblnd]

5. HIG capitol

2004 — September 9th, H.I.G. Capital acquired all outstanding Evercom stock. The merger of the two correctional industry giants—T-Netix, Inc. and Evercom Systems, Inc.—formed the company, Securus Technologies, Inc.
https://securustech.net/web/securus/securus-history

Founders and Managing Partners

Sami Mnaymneh

Tony Tamer

H.I.G. Private Equity - Americas

Timothy Armstrong
Douglas Berman
Jeff Bohl
Marcelo Cecchetto
Fabian de Armas
Rodrigo Feitosa
Jonathan Fox
Peter Gudwin

Matt Gullen
Thomaz Horta
Camilo Horvilleur
Mark Kelly
Roman Krislav
Chris Laitala
Matthew Lozow
Elliot Maluth

Fernando Marques Oliveira
Brian McMullen
Charles Mills
William Nolan
Todd Ofenloch
Christopher Paldino
Keval Patel
Michael Phillips

Fraser Preston
Justin Reyna
Rick Rosen
Brian Schwartz
Bobby Sheth
Richard Stokes
Tenno Tsai
Neil Tuch

Kevin Van Culin
Rahul Vinnakota
John Von Bargen
Bret Wiener
Rob Wolfson
Leonardo Yamamoto
Jeff Zanarini
Joe Zulli
http://higcapital.com/team#5

[randys1]

7. I hope none of these assholes are Christians...

[notadmblnd]

9. The Tony Tamer guy is a Bain Capital protege

[randys1]

10. Cons exist to cause destruction and to steal, as far as I am concerned...but then I have experience

with this too so my opinion is experience based.

[notadmblnd]

11. Of course they do. They hate government

But they love using it to line their pockets

[randys1]

12. And as long as they reassure dumbshit that they hate Black people as much as dumbshit

hates Black people, they can literally take money right out of their pockets, right in front of them, and still get their votes.


Which is why I say racism in America is as bad as it has EVER been.

Less lynchings, sure, but we have people who will advocate against the survival of life on the planet, i.e. anti climate change science, solely because to NOT do so means they have to admit they are wrong about everything, including their racism.

[LanternWaste]

3. I'm going to guess that the owner of Securus Systems has given a hefty campaign contribution

I'm going to guess that the owner of Securus Systems has given a hefty campaign contribution to the relevant state GOP members.

[Monk06]

4. Corporate prisons are in reality, corporate imprisonment. Prison for profit should be a human

rights violation and should come under the perview of the ICC in the Hague. But of course the US has refused to sign on to the ICJ accords.

Now you know why the US government boycotts the ICJ. It's not to protect American soldiers from prosecution, at least not the only reason. It is to protect the 'for profit' war and prison systems in the US and in countries within it's sphere of influence.

[randys1]

8. When white auto mechanics (etc) start going to prison for smoking a joint, we might see change

[lpbk2713]

6. It's easy pickings for PTB to victimize prisoners.

The prisoners have no constituency. Hardly anyone will come to their defense.

Phone calls, treats and snacks are all at a premium price.