Prison music distribution, made simple. Get your music onto JPay, GTL/ViaPath & the federal (TRULINCS) kiosks — in front of a paying audience almost no independent artist is reaching — and keep 100% of your royalties.
Two ways in — do it yourself, or we do it for you.
Two Ways In
Same destination — your music selling on JPay, GTL & the federal kiosks. Choose the path that fits where you're at.
Either way, you're working with Done Deal Digital — the team that does prison distribution for a living.
The Opportunity
Incarcerated people buy music — on tablets and kiosks inside their facilities. It's a real market with money in it, limited entertainment options, and almost zero competition from independent artists. The catch: you can't just upload to Spotify and call it done. Prison networks are a closed, filtered world with their own rules.
Download & streaming stores on prison tablets across the country (GTL now operates as ViaPath). Powered behind the scenes by Neurotic Media.
The federal Bureau of Prisons network, reached through the MediaNet pipeline. A whole second audience most artists never touch.
$7 per album, $0.70 per track — and you keep all of it. The facility's fees are paid by the buyer, not taken from your cut.
Why Most Releases Get Blocked
Correctional networks run a sensitive content filter, and they're contractually barred from publishing the rules. One wrong word in a track title, a Parental Advisory logo on your cover, a duplicate title, the wrong "explicit" toggle — and your release is silently rejected. No notice. No refund of your time. This is exactly where artists waste weeks.
Do It Yourself
Every step, in plain English — the verified routing map, the full compliance rulebook, artwork specs, and the exact distributor walkthroughs. The same information competitors sell for $300, kept current and corrected.
Not Sure Yet?
Get the market, the money, and the full compliance rulebook — free. See the quality before you buy.
Open the Free Preview →Done-For-You · JPay, GTL & TRULINCS
You just read what it takes. Don't want to do all 38 steps yourself? Done Deal Digital handles your JPay & GTL music distribution end to end — done right the first time, or we fix it free.
We keep your roster live and compliant across the prison networks as platforms change, handle new drops, and send you a monthly sales report. The set-it-and-forget-it option — and the smartest move once you've got more than a couple releases inside.
Your masters (WAV), your cover art (or let us make one), basic artist info, and a one-line confirmation that you own the music. That's it — we handle the rest.
Add-ons: compliant cover redesign $75 · state + federal bundle +$79 · rush available.
If a release gets blocked for something we controlled — metadata or artwork — we fix and resubmit free. We can't override a facility's own curation decision (no honest service can), but we make sure you're compliant and submitted correctly — which is the whole ballgame.
Questions
Yes — in the audio. The filter only screens the visible metadata: track titles, artist name, and artwork must be clean. The guide covers exactly how.
Typically a couple of weeks after correct submission (about 14 business days for the main pipeline). Add lead time around the holidays.
The guide teaches you to do it yourself, forever, with lifetime updates. The done-for-you service means our team does all of it for you — compliance, routing, submission, and verification.
Yes — 100%. The networks pay iTunes-equivalent rates ($7/album, $0.70/track) and the facility's fees are paid by the buyer, not taken from you.
Because the guide is our front door, not our business. We make our living doing the distribution for artists. You get the same (re-verified, corrected, maintained) information for a fraction of the price.
Start with the $97 playbook, or have us handle the whole thing. Either way — your music, in places it's never been.
