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Prison tablets
News Inside
March 28, 2023
Y’all Want It, We Got It
Issue 13 of News Inside fills reader requests and gives them something new to think about.
By
Lawrence Bartley
The Marshall Project Inside
January 27, 2023
Giving Incarcerated People What They Want — Better News Access
The Marshall Project explains its decision to offer free news to incarcerated people on tablets that otherwise charge users.
By
Lawrence Bartley
Life Inside
August 12, 2021
Stopping Violence Over Prison Phone Time? There’s an App for That.
While Corey Devon Arthur was quarantining, people in the unit got tablets equipped with telephone apps. “If we all had the option to use a phone app, the value of violence would plunge,” he writes.
By
Corey Devon Arthur
News
December 17, 2020
How Trump Made a Tiny Christian College the Nation’s Biggest Prison Educator
His administration has funneled $30 million to Ashland University in Ohio. Critics say the school’s tablet-based program fails incarcerated students.
By
Eli Hager