Ray said in a prepared statement that the inmates were “intentionally exploiting a vulnerability within JPay to improperly increase their JPay account balances.”
Who's willing to bet the "vulnerability" is putting a minus sign on the payment amount
Give an inmate a tablet and 10 years in prison they're going to find countless ways to fuck with things.
It's kind of like when you're in school, all the weird ways people find for getting past the schools internet blocks, boredom will do crazy things to someone's productivity
Also, this is from the Engadget article on the same:
The company appears to earn revenue in part by charging inmates for email use and digital media downloads, using a credit system to do so. “Having one of these tablets helps your loved ones pass the time, keep engaged and stay connected to you,” reads the company’s product page for the JP5 tablet.
Anyone else feel a little uncomfortable about the profit side of this? The tablets are also generally paid for by family members of the inmate.
many prisons in america are businesses first
Private prisons are a deplorable institution. That's just another way of leeching the money out of people with absolutely no way to choose other options. A monopoly on the people's time, labor, and leisure lets you get away with all kinds of shit you'd NEVER get away with otherwise.
Oh boy are you in for a shock hahaha
Even when you're not in prison unpaid hours is literally slave labour.
'OR 1=1
Electronic tablets are one of the few things i'm fine with prisoners being charged for use or having to be paid for by a family member, ignoring whether or not prisoners get fair labor wages a tablet isn't that essential of a need and even people who say prisoners aren't given enough privileges can agree there are ways for a prisoner to occupy their time without electronic devices. Sure we should have some sort of system in place to make sure it isn't a exorbitant amount and balances cant go negative, but prisons are underfunded as is and contracts with companies that provide services like this are one of the few ways prisons can make money without having to cut something else from a budget. Sure someone might make profit off of this but it isn't an essential need or right.
There are many studies that readily display that such devices (and communication through them) has a profound positive impact on the psyche of those who are isolated due to illness or other reasons, so this is not accurate.
We just nabbed the admin password and went to town with installing games.
larf.
As someone whom was a victim of no less than 7 felonies (rape x2, attempted rape, burglaryx2 and assault x2) and committed a misdemeanor (shoplifting) and felony (assault with intent, see above) before I was 18 I can safely say your trumpeen theorycraft holds no actual weight nor has any basis in any kind of fact.
American prisons have never existed for the betterment of society nor the rehabilitation of offenders. They exist to segregate problematic people from civilized society and as a state of neverending income for the institutions that police and administrate them, and that's been the case since the end of 1700s. The US has had 200 years to shape this system into something productive and rehabilitational, and has not done so, and has no intention of doing so, because the societal framework put in place has not truck for it, and there's money to be made. There are three states in the union that cannot maintain working order without their prison population propping their literal government up, and there is no sunshine side to that. These companies operate at a comfortable profit, and they aren't even kind of interested in changing their model and neither are the states that depend on prison labor and population to function at all.
Your junior high logistical premise doesn't even kind of work in the real world.
Prison Reform Movement of the 1800s by Sai Narra on Prezi
I remember hearing that this was a bug in gmod rp servers
With everything going on we might be living in a simulation, and it's a dark rp server
Too bad this is basically play money. Everything is logged and no actual bank accounts were involved, afaict.
Something similar happened before, with the phone system doing triple reimbursements for failed calls (because the two backup servers were running as opposed to being off, which is insanity-level bad programming on multiple levels), though in that case the one who discovered it managed to use it to post bail. Then other inmates got greedy and it was discovered.
Fun fact there's a program for buying hugely marked up snacks for loved ones in prison.
The US prison system's main purpose is to generate profits.
highly confused as to what the relevancy is of your 7 felonies you fell victim to?
seems like you kinda just wanted to say it
The relevancy is being up to my ass in the legal system for several years on both sides of the gavel, and seeing first hand how incarceration and monetization works, and is the defacto method for many states. Look up the average sentences for misdemeanor drug offenses in Louisiana and tell me with a straight that shit is any kind of objective, sane or rational, much less preventative or "positively" correctional.
Community service is fine. It should really be the primary punishment.
There is a growing body of research that suggests that physically contributing to the community you live in causes you to grow attached to it. Community attachment decreases criminal behavior.
Using people to build parks and maintain roadways is weirdly effective.
Can also fold some restorative justice in there when possible. Making life better for the individuals you hurt with your actions.
Couple that with the opportunity to remove your felon status if you do well and we could do a lot of good for the community, those affected by crime directly, and the offenders themselves.
A good justice system seeks the betterment of everyone involved.
jpay is bullshit, they're lowest bid type software, everything is buggy, broken, and they charge upwards of $5 to use a credit or debit card
Yeah a lot of people rated funny, but I was actually kind of serious they seem quite reticent to talk about it, and hundreds of inmates were able to use the exploit
One of the computers I used at the tech school I went to had the Quake shareware installed. There was also a person (perhaps the same guy?) who got expelled before I even went there, because he accidentally downloaded a particularly nasty virus that spread like wildfire and screwed the school's entire network for weeks.
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