Your people inside can finally hear you — and you keep 100% of your music. The big distributors don’t reach the prison kiosks. Getting a record in there is its own job with its own rules, and this page lays out how it actually works across JPay, Securus, GTL/ViaPath & the federal system — a listening audience almost no independent artist reaches.
Two lanes — both paused until the route is locked back down.
Two Ways In
Both lanes are on hold while we lock the route back down. Here is what each one covers when it reopens.
Both lanes are paused right now. Nothing on this page is for sale today.
No one inside — just want Spotify & Apple? Start here → music distribution, keep 100%.
The Opportunity
Behind the wall, your loved ones can buy and play music right on the tablets inside — and for many, your song is one of the few ways left to feel close. For the artist, it's an audience almost no one else reaches; for the family, it's a voice that makes it across the wall. The catch: you can't just upload to Spotify and call it done — prison networks are a closed, filtered world with their own rules. We know them.
Download & streaming stores on prison tablets across the country (GTL now operates as ViaPath). Reached through a behind-the-scenes route most independent artists never see.
Learn more →The federal Bureau of Prisons network, reached through its own behind-the-scenes route. A whole second audience most artists never touch.
Learn more →Inside, people buy your music outright — a single sells for around $0.99–$2.50, a paid download, not a fraction-of-a-cent stream. (Tablets also carry a ~$24.99/mo streaming tier — but a purchase pays you far more per play.) You earn a share of every sale, with your exact terms in writing before you pay.
No Games · Where The Money Goes
The facility itself always makes the final call on whether a track goes on its tablets — that’s their decision, not ours.
Full breakdown: How do artists get paid on prison tablets? →The Reach
One correct release routes into the two networks that run prison entertainment — JPay/Securus and GTL/ViaPath — plus the federal system. That's not a niche; it's one of the largest audiences in the country that almost no independent artist reaches.
Reach spans the JPay/Securus and GTL/ViaPath tablet networks — 30+ state systems and 640+ county jails — plus the federal Bureau of Prisons through TRULINCS. Not every facility individually, but the large majority of the market.
Sources: Federal Bureau of Prisons · U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics · ViaPath · Securus/JPay.
Why Most Releases Get Blocked
Correctional networks run a strict, unforgiving content filter, and they're contractually barred from publishing the rules. Before a release can sell inside, it has to clear a specific set of content and metadata rules — trip any one of them and your release is silently rejected. No notice. No refund of your time. Get one detail wrong and you often won't even know why it never went live. This is exactly where artists waste weeks.
60 seconds. Tell us who you are and we’ll tell you straight — what fits the facility filters, what needs a clean edit, and what your next step is. No cost, no pressure.
Coming Soon
We are not taking orders for prison distribution right now. We are locking the route back down before we sell it again. We are not putting a date on it and we are not taking your money for something we cannot hand you today. It is coming back.
Do It Yourself
Every step, in plain English — how the prison networks actually work, the full content & compliance rulebook, the metadata and artwork specs, and how to choose a distributor that actually reaches the kiosks. The same ground competitors charge $300 for, kept current and corrected.
Not Sure Yet?
You don't need us to give away the how-to — you need proof it works. Our founder's own record, “Street Life,” is going through this exact pipeline right now, with every receipt published the day it becomes real.
Watch Street Life go live →Done Deal Digital LLC · 28 Geary St., Suite 650 PMB 5405, San Francisco, CA 94108 · (510) 355-3285 · Read the distribution agreement
Coming Soon
We are not taking orders for prison distribution right now. We are locking the route back down before we sell it again. We are not putting a date on it and we are not taking your money for something we cannot hand you today. It is coming back.
Done-For-You · JPay, Securus & GTL/ViaPath
You just read what it takes. When this reopens, Done Deal Digital handles the compliance and submission work end to end. It is not open today. See exactly how a deal works →
Got a full catalog or a whole roster? We’ll scope a custom bulk drop — let’s talk →
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 — stack onto any order
Rush moves your order to the front of the queue. Bigger project? ask for a rush quote.
When the service reopens: if a release gets blocked for something we controlled — metadata or artwork — we fix and resubmit free. Nobody can override a facility's own curation decision, and no honest service claims to.
Questions
The block is almost never about your music itself. But a release still has to clear a strict, unforgiving filter that rejects non-compliant submissions silently — get one detail wrong and you often won't even know why it never went live. Exactly what passes is a specific set of rules the guide covers in full — it's in the $97 guide, or the done-for-you service handles compliance when it reopens.
Timing is set by each kiosk operator's own review cycle after a correct submission, and it varies by platform. We are not quoting timelines while our offering is paused.
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. Both are paused right now; neither is for sale today.
You keep 100% of your music — your masters and your publishing stay yours. On the kiosks, a single sells for around $0.99–$2.50 to the buyer — bought, not streamed — and you earn a share of every sale. What you take home depends on the path you pick — DIY with the guide, or one of our done-for-you options — and we put your exact terms in writing before you pay a dollar.
Because the guide is our front door, not our business. The real business is the done-for-you work, which is paused right now. You get the same (re-verified, corrected, maintained) information for a fraction of the price.
Nothing on this page is for sale today. Put your name on the list and you hear about it first when it reopens.
