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When New Jersey Switches Prison Tablet Companies, I’ll Lose 10 Years of Family Memories

Writer Shakeil Price uses his JPay tablet as a hard drive for his photos and videos. He’ll soon have to mail it home or have it destroyed.

Life Inside • 05.09.2025

Writing Is My Main Freedom. One Day My Work Disappeared.

A software change in my prison-issued electronic tablet ate up my drafts and eliminated basic writing tools. That may sound minor, but try sending a poem to your kid without line breaks.

Life Inside • 12.16.2021

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.

Life Inside • 08.12.2021

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