buying Android tablets in prison w/ Gaby Caplan
Episode 19 of the generic youth media brand podcast, hosted by Dexter Thomas, titled "buying Android tablets in prison w/ Gaby Caplan" was published on May 20, 2024 and runs 40 minutes.
May 20, 2024 ·40m · generic youth media brand
Episode Description
Prisons are constantly going on lockdown because of staff shortages, which means that prisoners can't use the phones. This makes tablet computers sold to incarcerated people are all the more crucial to let their loved ones on the outside know they are safe – but Gaby Caplan has discovered in her reporting for WIRED that federal prisons nationwide seem to have enacted a policy of disabling the messaging functions.
Why should we care? Gaby breaks it down.
Read Gaby's piece here:
https://www.wired.com/story/electronic-tablets-in-federal-prisons-chat-apps-disabled/
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