Since this shares a namespace, I think it's important to bring this to light:
JMail is a name anyone who's ever written a letter to an incarcerated person in the US would know. It's owned by JPay.
Many people don't realize that almost every aspect of an incarcerated person's life is commercialized. Even just being in prison costs money and most people that make it out of prison have a debt they have to pay back the rest of their lives for the amount of time they spent in prison.
Besides living/quarters, American prisoners also have to pay for almost any communication they make with the world outside of their cells. Emailing your loved one might seem like a more economical alternative to physical mail but these messages are also taxed a "virtual stamp" that is ultimately paid to a private company (NOT the government).
PS: if you're a business grad reading this—don't bother. Almost every opportunity to profit off of incarcerated people has already been thoroughly taken advantage of.
It says that the emails were compiled by converting the PDFs to structured text with an LLM, but the Oversight Committee release didn't contain any PDFs. Did they OCR all of the JPGs?
Since this shares a namespace, I think it's important to bring this to light:
JMail is a name anyone who's ever written a letter to an incarcerated person in the US would know. It's owned by JPay.
Many people don't realize that almost every aspect of an incarcerated person's life is commercialized. Even just being in prison costs money and most people that make it out of prison have a debt they have to pay back the rest of their lives for the amount of time they spent in prison.
Besides living/quarters, American prisoners also have to pay for almost any communication they make with the world outside of their cells. Emailing your loved one might seem like a more economical alternative to physical mail but these messages are also taxed a "virtual stamp" that is ultimately paid to a private company (NOT the government).
PS: if you're a business grad reading this—don't bother. Almost every opportunity to profit off of incarcerated people has already been thoroughly taken advantage of.
uncomfortably relatable that the most recent email is from the Quora Daily Digest
Clever, but kind of frustrating that it takes so long for each email to load.
We fixed the site and it's much faster now. Cloudflare caching for the win.
Very fun. It would be nice if there was a button to expand all contents of a thread (expand all mails). Gmail has this.
It says that the emails were compiled by converting the PDFs to structured text with an LLM, but the Oversight Committee release didn't contain any PDFs. Did they OCR all of the JPGs?
really cool but could you show email links on hover so you could open in a new tab and keep the page open? it also goes back to the first page
Control + click?
that doesnt work when theres no link to click
It's very very slow. Basically unusable
Riley fixed it!