At the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, four of the six JPay kiosks available to the maximum security prison population remain broken. This leaves two kiosks available for use to hundreds of prisoners attempting to upload music, send out emails, and produce video messages– all in a timeframe that was never long enough when all of the kiosks were operational.
The limited kiosk access has created a kind of “Mad Max” scenario where maximum security prisoners, none of whom were sent here for their gentle dispositions or excessive empathy, struggle and claw for access time. In some blocks, this has led to gang rivalries, as some otherwise inactive gang members have united to monopolize the kiosks and guarantee their own access.
For anyone witnessing these evolving tensions and hostilities, it is perfectly predictable that JPay negligence in failing to repair kiosks will soon lead to prisoners fighting, stabbing, and killing each other. In short, JPay is reasonably the greatest threat to internal security in Ohio prisons.
Anyone wanting to save lives can contact JPay and demand that they repair the four broken kiosks at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility:
Telephone: (855) 445-5729
Direct: (954) 862-6900, ext. 3016
KDuncan@JPay.com