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California Gave Every Student in Prison a Laptop. How Community Colleges Are Using Them

Loaded on July 1, 2026 by Ella Carter-Klauschie published in Prison Legal News July, 2026, page 60
Filed under: Education, Computers, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Post-release, ex-offender, re-entry, Access to Computers. Location: California.

by Ella Carter-Klauschie

This article was originally published in CalMatters.

 

Across California, every incarcerated individual taking a college course now has a tool those of us on the outside take for granted: a laptop.

In the past three years, the prison system spent $23.2 …

 

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