Pat Taylor Unethical Case Study

It is unethical for the criminal justice system to let private companies make a lot of profit from inmates, their families, and the community. For companies like JPay to charge a lot for families to send money to their loved ones, it is so unethical. Most of those families have to sacrifice everything that they have to give their loved ones some money. Pat Taylor is a single mother whose son is serving a 20-year prison sentence. She tries to send her son as much money as she can so she can help him out. When she first started to send her son some money, it was fast and she barley paid any fees. When the prison her son was in changed to JPay Inc., it made it harder on Taylor to send her son some money. She had to pay a lot of fees and the money …show more content…
Taylor is not the only one that private companies has affected. There are millions of families that have been impacted by those private companies and it really affected them financially. It makes it harder for families who are in poverty to get out of it. Carla Gonzales’s brother has been in prison for 15 years and her family is still trying to recover financially from that. When they go visit him in prison they have to bring at least 200 dollars in cash to buy food there. They also send 400 dollars every other month to send her brother a package of clothes and toiletries (Covert). They sometimes have to choose between sending him money or visiting him. Sometimes Gonzales cannot even afford to call her brother because of how much the phone companies charge. They can charge as much as $1.22 a minute, which it used to be 4 cents a minute. Gonzales states, “The experience as a family member is costly on your pocket, costly on your heart” (Covert). Gonzales’ s family doesn’t have a lot of money but they make sure that her brother has everything he needs while he is locked up. They just wished that it wasn’t a big weigh on the family’s financial