Securus Listens Carefully to Corrections/Law Enforcement and Incarcerated Individuals to Craft Its Products and Acquisitions

Direct Correlation Between Products Developed/Technology Acquired to Customer Requests

DALLAS, TX September 30, 2016/PRNewswire/ — Securus Technologies, a leading provider of civil and criminal justice technology solutions for public safety, investigation, corrections and monitoring announced today that its product development and acquisition program is significantly shaped by input from corrections/law enforcement officials and by Incarcerated Individuals/friends and family members. “We don’t purchase a company or technology or develop a product with our software teams without input from our jail/prison customers and Incarcerated Individuals and their friends and family members,” said Richard A. (“Rick”) Smith, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Securus Technologies. “We have thousands of direct interactions each day with Incarcerated Individuals, friends/family, wardens, jailers, sheriffs, parolees, facility IT staffs, and others in the industry so we watch, look, and try to understand on an explicit and implicit basis – what they need for efficiency, recidivism reduction, successful entry into society, safety, investigative, and security reasons. There is a wealth of information in front of us – so we use that to make decisions on acquisitions and our development efforts,” said Smith. Here are some examples of using customer specific data for product development and acquisition investments:

Facility or Incarcerated Individual/Friend/Family Issue(s)	Securus Response
Video Requests I want to see my family via video versus audio I want to allow Incarcerated Individuals to visit family members onsite via video I want to attend my son’s graduation and I’m in prison/jail	Purchases Primonics and invests $40 million in video communication with additional development
Contraband Wireless/Security Issues Contraband wireless units found in facilities are a big problem	Securus purchases CellBlox and negotiates exclusive with Vanu Tactical and Harris Corporation; Securus invests $50 million
Facilities request Electronic Medical Records (EMR) to better monitor and track Incarcerated Individual health	Securus purchases Cara Clinicals and provides EMR products; invests $10 million
Incarcerated Individuals request job availability information	Securus negotiates exclusive with JobView and allows Incarcerated Individuals access to job availability
Incarcerated Individuals, Corrections Officials, and Friends and Family request tablets to facilitate Incarcerated Individual learning, religious studies, Incarcerated Individual communications, and recidivism reduction	Securus secure tablet development and acquisition of JPay; invests $250 million
Facilities request interactive voice response systems (IVR) to respond to questions more quickly from Incarcerated Individuals and friends and family members	Securus invests in Telerus, the largest provider of IVR systems to respond to Incarcerated Individual and friend and family requests; Securus invests $10 million
Facilities request that Securus offer GPS parolee tracking devices and offer bundled products to save money	Securus invests $100 million in parolee monitoring devices to provide avenue to decrease prison/jail populations in a safe/secure way

  “The point here is that we listen carefully to our facility customers AND our Incarcerated Individual/friends/family customers – and do our best to build and buy products to satisfy their requirements. We put almost everything that we make in terms of profit back into our business – that allows us to have the broadest product set that exists today. That commitment helps all of our customers. It’s an investment in their futures by Securus,” concluded Smith.