And by "for apps and music" you mean "allowing each of the implicated inmates to video chat with loved ones for a day and a half, costing the company virtually nothing."

Great link! They caught the inmates who put $1000 directly into their own accounts. If they caught the smarter people, it wasn't mentioned...

Well, they caught someone. Possibly the actual culprits, but maybe not. Outside of prison, there are mules who agree to, under pressure or otherwise, receive stolen funds, knowing (probably) that they'll be caught. These are "lifestyle" criminals and addicts for whom being in prison is just a fact of life, or people who have found themselves in debt to e.g. organized crime.

The only “wrong” thing there seems to be that these guys got caught.

JPay and the people behind it deserve to burn.