Type for-profit Founded 1986 | Website Securus Technologies | |
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Industry Prison technology company Predecessor Richard Falcone, Chairman and CEO (-2008) Area served Carrollton, Texas, Allen, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia Key people CEO: Richard A. (Rick) Smith (Jun 23, 2008–) CEO Richard A. (Rick) Smith (23 Jun 2008–) Headquarters Dallas, Texas, United States Subsidiaries JPay, Syscon Justice Systems, Inc., T-Netix, Inc. Parent organization Securus Technologies Holdings, Inc. | ||
Securus Technologies is an American for-profit prison technology company based in Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1986 with regional offices located in Carrollton, Texas, Allen, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia, the company employs approximately 1,000 people and is reported to have contracts with 2,600 correctional facilities in the United States. serve over 2,200 Correctional Facilities across the United States and Canada Securus announced in July 2016 that it had invested more than $600 million in technologies, patents and acquisitions in three years.
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History
In September 2004 "T-Netix and Evercom—two industry leading corrections market industry companies"—merged. In June 2007 Securus Technologies acquired the "international brand leader in Offender Management Systems—Syscon Justice Systems.
Controversy
Securus was one of a number of companies which provided telephone service to inmates in US prisons at higher rates than the general public. The company was the target of a data breach of about 70 million records of phone calls in July 2015.