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https://www.mytechfriends.com/contact.html https://www.mytechfriends.com/contact.html Disgraceful people. The name of the company is particularly insulting...

saagarjha 8y ago
Notice how the advertisement has "no cost to your facility" as the highlighted part–there's no word about how much it costs inmates and their families.
- olivermarks 8y ago
  Trying to think what one can do to combat this prison industrial complex cash machine...
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    Try your hardest to not go to jail and if you or a family member does don't contact them? There's no good options…
  - lotsofpulp 8y ago
    There's nothing you can do other than participating in the civic process. Vote, run for elections, campaign for good people, etc.
  - peteradio 8y ago
    Vigilante justice. Jk?
    - saagarjha 8y ago
      Sounds like a great way to end up in exactly the situation where you have to deal with this issue but have no way to enact change…
      - ryanlol 8y ago
        How so? There’s so much you can do to harass people within the limits of the law. Just name and shame the individuals developing this kind of software, they deserve much worse but it’s a good start.
        saagarjha 8y ago
        Vigilante justice will land you in jail. There's not a whole lot you can do from there.
        ryanlol 8y ago
        Not at all, only very specific kinds of vigilante justice will land you in jail. It is not difficult to hurt people without breaking the law.
    - logfromblammo 8y ago
      Seems like if someone just handed out contact information for the owners and management of those prison-service companies to everyone that left a facility, the problem would eventually take care of itself. Ideally, the lawyers would work it out, but if not, the recidivism rate might. I don't feel at all conflicted about the possibility that anyone might get more than what's coming to them. The misery of others should not be a for-profit industry--not for the criminals, and definitely not for the prisons. Keeping prisoners just seems like one of those jobs where no one who actually wants to do it should ever be allowed to.
  - wonderwonder 8y ago
    Stop them from being able to lobby politicians. The only way we allow people to be treated like this is because we allow corporations to legally bribe our elected officials. We also keep voting for those same officials.
    - colejohnson66 8y ago
      It’s also because a large portion of the US population wants the officials to be as tough on crime as we are. You need to not just fix the politicians, you need to fix America
      - dzhiurgis 8y ago
        I too noticed that Americans are extremely vengeful and puritan.
briffle 8y ago
They actually brag [0] in their youtube video on how they can censor the video feed to improve control over 'behaviour', 'clothing', and 'messaging'. wow. that is just crazy. [0] https://www.youtube.com/embed/NUIQIDDXN_o https://www.youtube.com/embed/NUIQIDDXN_o
wonderwonder 8y ago
From their site: "Has an upgrade ever made your system worse? Each time new features are added to Lockdown, automated transaction testing is used to verify that the financials remain rock solid." There it is, its all about squeezing money from the prisons resources. In this case unfortunately those resources are human beings that have been downgraded to less than human. I could not imagine the mind set it takes to willfully profit on human suffering.

saagarjha 8y ago

Notice how the advertisement has "no cost to your facility" as the highlighted part–there's no word about how much it costs inmates and their families.

olivermarks 8y ago
Trying to think what one can do to combat this prison industrial complex cash machine...
- saagarjha 8y ago
  Try your hardest to not go to jail and if you or a family member does don't contact them? There's no good options…
- lotsofpulp 8y ago
  There's nothing you can do other than participating in the civic process. Vote, run for elections, campaign for good people, etc.
- peteradio 8y ago
  Vigilante justice. Jk?
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    Sounds like a great way to end up in exactly the situation where you have to deal with this issue but have no way to enact change…
    - ryanlol 8y ago
      How so? There’s so much you can do to harass people within the limits of the law. Just name and shame the individuals developing this kind of software, they deserve much worse but it’s a good start.
      - saagarjha 8y ago
        Vigilante justice will land you in jail. There's not a whole lot you can do from there.
        ryanlol 8y ago
        Not at all, only very specific kinds of vigilante justice will land you in jail. It is not difficult to hurt people without breaking the law.
  - logfromblammo 8y ago
    Seems like if someone just handed out contact information for the owners and management of those prison-service companies to everyone that left a facility, the problem would eventually take care of itself. Ideally, the lawyers would work it out, but if not, the recidivism rate might. I don't feel at all conflicted about the possibility that anyone might get more than what's coming to them. The misery of others should not be a for-profit industry--not for the criminals, and definitely not for the prisons. Keeping prisoners just seems like one of those jobs where no one who actually wants to do it should ever be allowed to.
- wonderwonder 8y ago
  Stop them from being able to lobby politicians. The only way we allow people to be treated like this is because we allow corporations to legally bribe our elected officials. We also keep voting for those same officials.
  - colejohnson66 8y ago
    It’s also because a large portion of the US population wants the officials to be as tough on crime as we are. You need to not just fix the politicians, you need to fix America
    - dzhiurgis 8y ago
      I too noticed that Americans are extremely vengeful and puritan.

briffle 8y ago

They actually brag [0] in their youtube video on how they can censor the video feed to improve control over 'behaviour', 'clothing', and 'messaging'. wow. that is just crazy. [0] https://www.youtube.com/embed/NUIQIDDXN_o https://www.youtube.com/embed/NUIQIDDXN_o

wonderwonder 8y ago

From their site: "Has an upgrade ever made your system worse? Each time new features are added to Lockdown, automated transaction testing is used to verify that the financials remain rock solid." There it is, its all about squeezing money from the prisons resources. In this case unfortunately those resources are human beings that have been downgraded to less than human. I could not imagine the mind set it takes to willfully profit on human suffering.