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After they’re given a uniform, a bunk and a blanket, Kentucky prison inmates get a sturdy computer tablet from which they can buy digital media products, such as email and video visits with their ...

Almost nobody outside of the Kentucky Department of Corrections has heard about how several hundred prison inmates hacked their state-issued, for-profit computer tablets to create more than $1 million ...

A man plays a game in the Brothers in Arms cell block, a new veteran-focused program, at the Harris County Joint Processing Center, part of the county jail system, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in ...

In 2021, Bryan Collier, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said that tablets would “fundamentally change” communication for the state’s more than 100,000 prison inmates.

In 2021, TDCJ began issuing Securus tablets to prison inmates for free. Inmates could use them to make a phone call instead of having to wait for a phone to become available. “There’s definitely more ...

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