Posted on 05/14/2026 3:48:14 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Condemned prisoners on California's death row are partly filling their time by watching pornography and engaging in lewd conversations using taxpayer-funded tablets as the state continues its shift toward a Norwegian-inspired approach to rehabilitating criminals, according to reports.
In an effort to connect its prison population to the outside world, California issued around 90,000 tablets to inmates as part of a multimillion-dollar program where incarcerated people could send and receive messages in real time to loved ones amid a push for digital equity.
The devices could also be used, in theory, for educational purposes. However, some have used the devices for more adult endeavors, the California Post reported.
The newspaper spoke with several death row inmates who claimed that users can evade security controls on the devices. Robert Maury, a serial rapist who strangled and killed at least three women in the 1980s, told the newspaper he viewed pornography on his taxpayer-funded digital tablet.
Inmates use the tablets to send nude images and watch porn, he said from a state prison in Stockton. Many watch through a video chat application where an inmate can call someone on the outside who can "put porn on their TV" for the inmate to watch.
In one instance, Maury said he received a topless photo from a 22-year-old German psychology student who was "hoping that I would share my story with her for her class project." He also claimed he "flirted" with her "for a while."
Samuel Amador, another serial killer sentenced to death, said porn videos are delivered in short 30-second clips and that inmates also have sexually explicit conversations through their tablets.
"I watch porn and short clips of my family at the beach," he told the Post. "We get around their bulls---," he said of the explicit exchanges.
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how about they fund their own tablet?
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And why does Newsom think this is OK in any way?
They made that up.
“Digital equity” as the article says. Just because you committed crimes heinous enough for a California jury to sentence you to death doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have the benefit of “equity.”
Access to porn may be seen by prison authorities as a way to help keep death row inmates occupied and docile rather than bored and inclined to cause trouble.
They love to combine two leftist slogans into a single phrase. Remember "environmental racism?"
Because he’s fundamentally evil.
That’s why they show movies with plenty of violence. Never mind that they also claim that violent TV shows cause violence in viewers.
I think they should have to pay for their own tablet and internet access just like the rest of us. Outside of that I don’t really care what they do.
The state of CA isn’t ever going to execute them. They are literally more in danger from a stray meteorite than from the state.
Gavin Newsom delivers porn to death row inmates — at taxpayer expense
05/13/2026 9:18:03 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 16 replies
New York Post ^ | May 13, 2026 | Christopher F. Rufo and Haley Strack
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/4379063/posts
Note the date.
They probably make prison porn videos for $.
Evil or lazy or both.
Also note that once you add a made up topic like “heated discussion” it will not be visible on the sidebar.
They might appear next to “bum fights.”
A question, whether this reduces prison violence and prisoner sexual violence or increases it?
The issue of porn aside, giving them individual TVs might indeed be an opiate for the incarcerated. That they call it “digital equity” is almost comical.
That used used to be a popular question. I don’t think the “experts” came to an agreement. My question was: How is it possible for Japan to have violent TV shows but a low rate of actual violent crime?
Because newscum is a scumbag that’s why
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