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Vendor pitches tablet-based mail, email and reentry platform to Arkansas Judiciary Committee
Summary
A vendor told the Senate Judiciary Committee that a package of digital mail processing, inmate email and rehabilitative content could remove drugs from postal mail and save agency labor; lawmakers pressed the company on costs, privacy and contract terms.
John Logan, CEO of Smart Communications, told the Arkansas Senate Judiciary Committee that his company could replace physical inmate mail with an off‑site, scanned mail service, provide two free controlled electronic messages per inmate each week and deliver rehabilitative and educational content to inmates at no cost to the state. "We have a plan to eliminate that basically overnight," Logan said, describing what he called a nationwide problem of drugs — including fentanyl — entering facilities through postal mail.
Logan said Smart Communications processes postal mail at a central facility in Tampa, Florida, converts approved mail to encrypted PDF files and delivers them to inmate tablets in a system he called the "smart ecosystem." For legal mail, he described a product called "MailGuard Legal," a Wi‑Fi cart that processes legal mail in the inmate's presence, shreds the original and emails an encrypted copy while…
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