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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

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.

News • 12.17.2020

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