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From Surveillance to Robot Guards: How AI Could Reshape Prison Life

Critics worry about opaque data collection, privacy violations and the technology’s bias spreading in jails and prisons.

Closing Argument • 08.30.2025

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

Does It Have Buttons? Is it Touchscreen?

Or, how I learned to use a computer in prison.

Life Inside • 06.22.2017

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