10/7/2016 9:53:58 PM Can Giving Prisoners Android Tablets Save Taxpayers Money? By Gareth Jones $74 billion in U.S. taxpayer money is spent annually to offset correction costs for America’s 2.2 million prisoners (who represent 22% of...
9/9/2016 8:55:20 PM APDS has won a Berkeley Haas School of Business BCorp award. By Gareth Jones APDS has been honored by the Berkeley Haas School of Business as one of "2016’s Best Businesses for the World.” Their tablet is...
7/17/2015 8:47:03 PM POTUS in Prison! Obama Takes Reform Message to the Prison Cell Block - APDS to benefit? By Gareth Jones As a teenager in Hawaii, Mr. Obama “smoked reefer” and snorted “maybe a little blow when you could afford it,” but ultimately ended up at...
10/28/2014 3:30:07 AM APDS deploy 125 tablets into San Francisco's County Jails By Gareth Jones One of the many remarkable stories coming out of this company. Financial literacy and disrupting the money transfer business into jails...
10/2/2014 2:26:14 AM Prison bankers cash in on captive customers By Gareth Jones The Center for Public Integrity traveled around the U.S. to investigate the growing web of prison bankers, private vendors and...
7/17/2014 9:31:30 PM A Shot at Banking Behind Bars By Gareth Jones We are not sure that a former bank robber is the ideal candidate to set up a prison banking service. However do believe that improving...
7/17/2014 1:39:56 PM Parole And Technology: Prison Breakthrough By Gareth Jones With mass incarceration in the US costing the US Taxpayer $83bn per year we need to (in the good words of a State Governor) "figure out...
7/17/2014 1:37:58 PM In Prisons, Sky-High Phone Rates and Money Transfer Fees By Gareth Jones Our portfolio company American Prison Data Systems (APDS) is attacking this problem head on and we're extremely proud to be involved.
7/17/2014 12:00:00 AM California's first TEDx inside a prison By Gareth Jones Richard Branson recently attended the TEDX at Ironwood State Prison (one of the most forward thinking correctional institutions in the...