The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Monitoring Online Purchases of Inmates’ Family and Friends

In their patent application, Securus provides the following example of how prisons might use this invasive and dangerous technology.  The flowchart submitted with the patent describing how the e-commerce surveillance system would work.  “[I]nmate call records may show that an inmate made calls to their girlfriend before escaping. Investigators question the girlfriend, but she provides no help.

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