When New Jersey switches prison tablet providers, Shakeil Price will lose access to 10 years of family photos and videos. It’s about preserving connection, not just data.
This only bothers me to the extent that it affects the innocent who are in prison. For the rest, this inconvenience is part of the punishment you’re serving.
Shouldn’t the point of prison rehabilitation be that the inmates be encouraged to build stronger social connections to reduce recidivism? Isolating and further punishing them like this seems like it’s going to make it more difficult to rebuild their lives post incarceration.
Also, it’s arbitrary and capricious - this is hitting everyone in the prison, regardless of their sentence, just because they happen to be incarcerated at the wrong place and time
This only bothers me to the extent that it affects the innocent who are in prison. For the rest, this inconvenience is part of the punishment you’re serving.
Shouldn’t the point of prison rehabilitation be that the inmates be encouraged to build stronger social connections to reduce recidivism? Isolating and further punishing them like this seems like it’s going to make it more difficult to rebuild their lives post incarceration.
Coulda woulda shoulda. We have a gulag system weaponized against the poor with a dash of “criminal justice”
Disagree. Prisons should be for rehabilitation, not punishment. You shouldn’t want to go to prison, but you should come out better than you went in.
I would say this punishment would be both cruel and unusual.
Also, it’s arbitrary and capricious - this is hitting everyone in the prison, regardless of their sentence, just because they happen to be incarcerated at the wrong place and time