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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
You have to get the balance right though, let's not forget prison is also about punishment as well as rehabilitation, imo we are currently failing in both areas and I don't think this particular idea will redress the balance of either
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Course it doesn't. It's suggesting giving prisoners computers in their cells for starters. Like I said, if a prisoner wants to entertain themselves in their own cell, they should read a book.
But at least you can see that restricted internet access for prisoners can be of benefit to rehabilitation (not to mention helping a wrongly convicted inmate to clear their name).
The other benefit of electronic communication is the monitoring abilities.
Every email in and out can be stored and analysed either automatically via keywords or manually read.