About the business: ViaPath Technologies of Falls Church provides communications products and services for people who are incarcerated, as well as their loved ones. The company employs nearly 1,400 full-time workers and 1,400 subcontractors globally, including at a warehouse in Dallas.
The company holds almost 50% of the U.S. market for incarcerated communications services, according to CEO Deb Alderson. It serves 1.6 million individuals currently and nearly 2,000 detention facilities, including through contracts with 30 state departments of corrections and more than 640 counties, D.C. and Puerto Rico.
How it started: Formerly called Global Tel Link, ViaPath got its start a little more than 30 years ago providing phones at corrections facilities to be used by incarcerated people to call home. On Jan. 4, the company underwent a major rebranding spearheaded by Alderson, entailing a new $5 million focus on reentry education and workforce training and connections for incarcerated people.
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