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Program gives inmates tablets to help re-integrate into society
Fox 13 News
A new pilot program is helping Utah inmates prepare for re-entry into society. The tech-assisted, focused re-entry program has 225 new tablets. Each cost $500, and come pre-loaded with educational materials, individualized treatment plans, housing information, employment options and more. The network they use is monitored, with no access to WiFi. All communication is monitored.
Can Tablets Help Educate Prisoners — and keep them from returning to Jail?
Forbes
APDS aims to help people behind bars get an education by supplying them with a platform for receiving appropriate curriculum. The idea is to supplement whatever curriculum is provided officially by giving prisoners tablets…
Jail Tech: Phones, tablets, and Software Behind Bars
PC Magazine
Technology has solved a number of important social issues that affect humanity. Education has become democratized and health information can be distributed to doctors around the world via the internet. Vaccines are delivered via drones. Apps predict earthquakes. The world is changing because of technology.
Tablets Improve Reading Scores, Behavior At Juvenile Facility
Indiana Public Media
A juvenile correctional facility in southeastern Indiana started an experiment two years ago. It distributed secure tablet computers to all of the girls. The goal of the technology was to help improve the girls’ educational experiences and opportunities. But the tablets are having an impact beyond the classroom.
Can Giving Prisoner Android Tablets Save Taxpayers Money?
The Observer
The U.S. prison system is absolutely massive—more than two million Americans are currently in jail, and 40 percent of inmates return to prison within three years. This also takes an economic toll—$74 billion in U.S. taxpayer money is used annually to offset correction costs for America’s 2.2 million prisoners (who represent 22 percent of the entire world prison population).
Online behind bars: if internet access is a human right, should inmates have it?
The Guardian
For most of the developed world, internet access is a given. Google, Amazon, Facebook offer a privileged world of communication, entertainment, shopping and education that many of us take for granted. Unless, that is, you happen to be incarcerated.
From Prison Tech to Educational Museum: Companies That Redefine Customer Service
B Magazine
Chris Grewe, an educational publishing veteran turned founder and CEO of American Prison Data Systems, wants no repeat end-users. Founded in 2012, APDS uses plastic-enclosed tablets to securely deliver content and services to inmates. APDS aims to reduce recidivism by providing inmates with educational and vocational apps plus limited contact with the outside world.
Prison ed tech takes off: Tablet-based systems in correctional facilities help inmates get educated
The Network
Tablet-based systems in correctional facilities help inmates get educated, learn new skills—and maybe find a job when they’re released. In his many years teaching prisoners incarcerated in Alabama’s state correctional system, Brannon Lentz has never seen anything like it.
2-year program at Madison facility shows positive impact tablets have on behavior
Indiana Lawyer
The data is still being collected, but the staff at the Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility is noticing the nearly 50 incarcerated young women are calmer, not filing as many grievances and reading more books.
Android in prisons: Meet the man who put Galaxy Tab S2s in Rikers Island
PCWorld
The concept is simple: Seed inmates with feature-limited Galaxy Tab S2s. The inmates typically have access to only educational and vocational apps, through in some cases they can use the tablets to read ebooks, and prepare for upcoming court cases..
Inside the Tech Startup That’s Building Tablets for Inmates
NBC
Some San Francisco jail inmates are now in possession of computer tablets they can use to do homework, read novels and prepare for their criminal cases. The tablets were distributed Wednesday to more than 100 inmates.
Teaching Prisoners: Meet ten socially responsible startups changing NY business
Crain's
One in every four kids in the United States fails to complete high school on time. That’s a stat Christopher Grewe is fond of using to prove his crucial point: “If you fail to complete high school, you’re eight to 10 times more likely to end up incarcerated…
With prison tablets, a choice between rehabilitation and profiteering
Al Jazeera America
A growing number of facilities are adopting more immediate means of communication such as email from handheld devices, providing a way for inmates to stay in touch more regularly with family members.
S.F. jail inmates to have access to prison tablets
SFGate
Cutting edge technology isn’t normally available to the more than 2 million men and women jailed in the United States — cost, security concerns and a criminal justice system that has favored punishment over rehabilitation are among the reasons.
Prisons, Recidivism, and Smart Solutions
PoliOptics Radio
Now, tablet computing offers a scalable way to deliver education, while also helping prisons eliminate cost centers such as law libraries through digitization. (New York alone has saved $2.3 million annually by moving this material online.)
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