tech review: tablets in prisons
kill switch
Kaleidoscope
4.7 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week we want to take a look at a little-known technology kept from public view: electronic tablets in prisons. Dexter talks to Gaby Caplan, a journalist and documentary filmmaker who has been researching how these tablets are used, the connection to the outside world that they promised, and why federal prisons have gone back on that promise.
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Gaby’s piece on WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/electronic-tablets-in-federal-prisons-chat-apps-disabled/
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