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8,000 Colorado Inmates Given Computer Tablets with Games, Books, Music
Breitbart ^ | 05/10/17 | Charlie Nash

Posted on 05/11/2017 6:10:33 AM PDT by Enlightened1

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To: Enlightened1

A broken tablet with the glass shards can easily become a weapon. No?


21 posted on 05/11/2017 6:48:03 AM PDT by xp38
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Put them on a “Devil’s Island” and forget them. Tablets? What LIB idiocy.


22 posted on 05/11/2017 6:50:49 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: mplc51

You are Right!! Here in PA the crooks have tablets, mp3 players and PlayStation to play in the Gym on Giant TV screens! Also they have been filing taxes for years and one year they had over 600 crooks getting them done by 2 crooks! The system is broke!!


23 posted on 05/11/2017 6:53:47 AM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Let’s assume, yes. Everything they do, every message they send is tracked, logged and retained.


24 posted on 05/11/2017 7:30:31 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: Enlightened1

Nothing like giving these criminals a means to watch porn and access subversive information.
If it were up to me, they wouldn’t even have light bulbs.
1. No artificial lighting
2. No TV
3. No radio
4. No books, magazines or newspapers
5. No computers.
6. No prepared hot meals. They can subsist on Purina Dog Chow.
7. No air conditionang
8. Heating at no higher than 65F.
It’s prison. They need incentive to not want to come back.


25 posted on 05/11/2017 7:36:08 AM PDT by BuffaloJack ("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
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8,000 Colorado Inmates Given Computer Tablets with Games, Books, Music

Suddenly being in prison is exactly the same as being a teen. You are locked into a small room fixated on an electronic device with no other worldly interests. Even sex is unimportant anymore.

26 posted on 05/11/2017 7:39:09 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Love your neighbor as you love yourself.)
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To: Enlightened1

Now they can surf for some silly, desperate, lonely wumins on the dating sites they can snooker and deceive with for all sorts of potential mischief.


27 posted on 05/11/2017 7:49:15 AM PDT by tflabo
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I'll bet that Grindr is going to be a top download.
28 posted on 05/11/2017 8:04:20 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Gamecock

The idea of restitution should be part of the prison system. In other words, WORK! Men need it, whether they think so or not. Maybe these pads help some aspects of prisoner “control”, but hours of good old fashioned labor would be better. Leave prisoners time to foment and they will.


29 posted on 05/11/2017 8:09:29 AM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: Gamecock

I am thinking putting prisoners on an island and their victims scoring points hunting them and broadcast it would make an interesting game to watch.


30 posted on 05/11/2017 8:49:09 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: babble-on

“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
James Baldwin

Possibly a useful tool, like TV or phone access.

An individual that worked for me was caught/ convicted running drugs. Three years then work release.
We hired him back, and I had to deal with his overseers.
Not much common sense in that bunch.

He said many of the inmates were incapable of life. PERIOD.
In work release they had to do the cooking, laundry, cleaning... They made a mess of most everything and could not clean it up. The group was often held back on privileges because of the mess.


31 posted on 05/11/2017 9:06:08 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (GO TRUMP!)
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To: Enlightened1

I see no mention of using the tablets for educational purposes. That would be asking too much I guess.


32 posted on 05/11/2017 1:15:48 PM PDT by subterfuge (Build the damn wall...)
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