American women who violated can actually post a video "make pen pals" on Tiktok, and the huge chain of interests behind them was pulled out...
July 28, 2022
This article is reproduced from: Take you around the UK It is said that last Friday, a special whistleblower message from a politician in Idaho, USA, made the news. The report pointed out that a female prisoner has been posting clipped videos on Tiktok since July 8 to ask for a "pen pal". What's even more terrifying is that in less than three weeks, she has attracted more than 33,000 followers and more than 500 new contacts with just 8 videos! Miriah Vanlith, 43, is serving a 10-year sentence at the Southern Idaho Correctional Facility and will not be eligible for parole until 2028. She was charged with sexually assaulting two boys, aged 14 and 17, in 2018, and was charged with inappropriately touching and molesting another 15-year-old boy. In addition to this, she was found to have lured children over the Internet and distributed controlled substances to minors!How can such a person who is extremely dangerous on the Internet still post social media videos so freely? ? Prisoners can't get standard internet access, let alone post videos to social media, so why is Miriah able to do this?It turned out that she was using a for-profit communication platform called JPay, which was able to send video messages to people outside who would then post the clips to her Tiktok account on her behalf.The private information technology platform focused on serving the U.S. prison system was created in 2002 to charge prisoners and their loved ones so they could communicate with each other.Using the prisoner's ID number, people can send money or email to the prisoners, while the prisoners themselves can share short "recorded videos" through JPay kiosks.Not only that, but prisoners can even buy JPay tablets that don't offer full internet access, but are able to download games or music for a fee...After the incident was reported, Miriah's Tiktok account was immediately banned, and the related video content was quickly deleted.As a result, Miriah was not happy this time, and she sent a paid email through JPay to write to the Idaho politician who reported the matter to "correct her name".She said she posted these videos just to make new pen pals to pass the boring time in prison, but she refused to say who helped her set up her Tiktok account: "I've made big mistakes in the past, but that doesn't define who I am! I have learned and grown a lot over the past 5 years in prison, I will take responsibility for everything I do, the past doesn't fully represent me, I have started a new chapter in my life..."In fact, the phenomenon of posting social media videos while serving a prison sentence like Miriah is not unique in the United States. Inmates at the Southern Idaho Correctional Facility, in particular, seem to be taking advantage of this, constantly scouring the Internet for pen pals.Nowadays, many related videos can be found with a simple entry search on Tiktok, and some people even create special accounts to publish "friendship videos" of different prisoners, which is like a blind date network...In response to this phenomenon, some prison authorities in the United States have responded that they are aware of the relevant situation, but cannot control third-party programs and payers to release videos on behalf of prisoners. As Jeff Ray, the head of the Southern Idaho Correctional Institution, released this "dumping the pot" speech in an interview: "While many pen pal relationships are well-intentioned, those who choose to engage in them should be vigilant on their own, including serving prisoners!"In simple terms, it means to let prisoners and outsiders watch such videos to deal with it - "our prison can't handle it"... However, the "truth" hidden behind this phenomenon does not seem as simple as it seems on the surface - in fact, in various prisons in the United States today, the fees charged for using JPay services vary.Sending video images like Miriah's at Southern Idaho Correctional Facility requires two "stamps," five of which can be purchased for every $2.While that might not seem like an expensive price, the point is that inmates who are able to work in prison are also paid very little. Jesse Crosson, a now-released ex-prisoner who served 19 years for robbery and shooting two people, set up a Tiktok account and posted multiple videos to reveal the "chain of interest" behind it. In one of the videos titled "Prison Profiteering", he said that when he was serving his sentence, in order to contact his family, he had to spend $20 a month on JPay to buy "stamps", but the months he worked in prison Earning only $54:"My family belongs to the middle class and can help a little bit, but not everyone is so lucky.Prisons profit from every phone call, every email, and every bar of soap sold, which is unfair to poor inmates, and it's just a fraction of America's multibillion-dollar prison industrial complex ..."Jesse's suggestion that there is "collaboration" between the US prison party and the JPay platform behind this incident is deliberately neglecting supervision to gain benefits.According to the subsequent defense remarks by the spokesperson of Aventiv Technologies, the parent company of JPay, it seems to be a little bit of shirk responsibility:"Let's be clear - incarcerated people cannot use Tiktok, let alone access the internet or access social media channels! While we work with the Department of Corrections to monitor security messages, JPay does not own what is sent and received.Apparently, family members and friends of prisoners who receive the message may sometimes post the content to social media, where the inmates cannot access the post or contact them through social media. Prisons may, in their sole discretion, take disciplinary action or suspend the customer if the customer believes that the communication service has been abused. "Editor in charge / Duan Huicalendar
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