Starting in 2023, inmates at most prison units should have access to digital tablets.
Harris County Sheriff's Office detention officers Kerry Baird, left, and Valerie Jenkins look at paperwork for inmates to sign on their tablets inside the Harris County Jail on Thursday, April 23, 2020, in Houston.Texas Department of Criminal Justice plans to roll out digital tablets to inmates
Prisons in Texas will receive JP6S Unity tablets that come equipped with educational tools, access to more than 30,000 eBooks and other materials, Trombetta said. Correctional facility tablets must also be designed to include shatterproof glass, security screws and more, Trombetta said. Aventiv is working to provide tablets to all incarcerated Americans because, it argues, this will make facilities safer for officers, staff and the population while also cutting recidivism and helping loved ones connect with those in prison, Trombetta said.
Willey shared a 2019 analysis from the Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit think tank, about a contract Harris County signed with Securus to provide calls and messages at the county jail. The analysis asserts that the county contracted with a private company that bills families $12 million per year for basic communications.
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