JPay has a new tablet designed specifically for people in prison

Private corrections service JPay introduced the JP5mini tablet last week, a tablet made specifically for the nearly two million incarcerated Americans that the company services in correctional facilities across 34 states. There are currently over 60,000 of the company’s previous generation JP4 tablets being used in prison’s today. A major update of this newer device is its ability to connect to wireless networks, which many prisons are beginning to implement. At face value, the device seems to be a pretty great deal. The Android-based tablet is $70 and despite having a pretty small screen (4.3 inches), the device has 32 gigabytes of storage standard. Through the device, inmates have access to music, email, video chat and more. Inmates aren’t exactly tuning into Spotify on these devices and listening to whatever they want. Music is policed and censored for overly violent lyrics according to Ryan Shapiro, CEO of JPay, but this is done at the discretion of the facility.