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Since there has been absolutely no recognition of a systemic problem (light's on - nobody home) that is costing JPay thousands of dollars in replacement tablets, and a lot prisoners a whole bunch of stomach-lining, I'm going to escalate the issue to you in hopes somebody actually reads this (unlike the Trouble Ticket screeners who just keep sending the same canned responses knowing - or simply not caring - they are ineffective). Hundreds of prisoners are not able to get their photos/attachments older than a few months loaded on their JP6s tablet [FN 1]. Trouble Ticket canned responses instruct prisoners to put the tablet in RECOVERY mode (using the Power/Volume Up button...) ...THAT'S THE PROBLEM! The JP6s tablet DOES NOT go into Recovery mode in this - or by any other discernible means - before or after any shutdown, hard or not (therefore, subsequently syncing with the kiosk does not give any update as the Trouble ticket informs will happen). The old tablets (JP5s) would

Granted, there are a lot of things not to like in prison (for prisoners and staff alike), but when the basic functionality of a prison breaks down - and nothing is done to correct it - bad things can and will happen. Since the first days of their reacting to the pandemic, ISCC administrators, like authorities around the world, have been flopping to and fro, trying to figure out what to do, or how to do it. Like everywhere, at times, prison staff have gotten it wrong - really wrong - and while there are a few things they've gotten right (like feeding prisoners in their housing units), their worst failures involve intentionally allowing the basic services provided to (and paid for by) prisoners to fail and continuing to either ignore or refuse to correct problems - some which have been going on for months. For Example: > For more than 5 months, virtually every local television channel on the ISCC cable system drops out (no signal) then comes back on seconds to minutes later - seve