A little portable radio can give you a lot of news, though even that is probably not allowed in a SCIF; but catch as catch can ;-)
They were allowed radios and cassette players. They also have TV on the units and in the yards. When I worked in Auburn, the TVs were in the yard. The only companies that had TVs were the honor unit. That was the two top floors of C Block. Before I retired in 2003, the inmates favorite TV program was "Cops."
Forgot to mention that when I was at Auburn, they had their own radio station that an inmate ran. Each cell had a connection that they could listen to it with headphones supplied by the state. Don’t know if they still have that though. It’s been many years.