'Unchecked monopolists': How prison technology companies profit off inmates -- ThinkProgress.org

On the day he was released after nearly 30 years in the California prison system, Joe Rudy Reyes was taken to a bus station. A corrections officer handed him a debit card preloaded with $442.20 — the balance in his inmate trust account, plus an additional $200 from the state to help him get home....
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