When New Jersey Switches Prison Tablet Companies, I’ll Lose 10 Years of Family Memories

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That definitely isn’t getting better before 2029 unless a lot of people in Washington drop dead at once.

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Don’t let your dreams be dreams

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• dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Without clicking the link, that headline is tough to unpack.

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  • mriswith@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s a weird read for a non-American.

    A private company is selling cheap tablets to inmates to let them communicate with their family. That’s not a bad thing, then you notice that the cost. They have to use “digital stamps” to send messages, 35 cents a piece and come in packs of 5, 10 or 20. Each stamp covers up to 20,000 characters or one single image.

    They also sell songs, at $1.99 a piece, and some people have spent thousands over the years. That’s also now just going away.

    Then you get to the part about the new company. Who already has a system in Tennessee where inmates have to pay 3-5 cents per minute of tablet usage. Be that watching a movie they’ve bought or just typing a message.

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I know they’re prisoners so there’s going to be the ethical debate of “Do we let them watch movies or not”, but if you’ve landed on “Yes” then charging them per minute on a tablet is so fucking stupid. Like is that part of the punishment? Lol

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• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The guy he killed lost 24 years of memories.

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  • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We don’t have to be monsters in kind. The American prison system is monstrous all on its own.

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  • CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    He was sentenced to prison for that crime. It wasn’t part of his sentence for everyone to impose their own abuses and disrespects on top of that.

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• MisterMoo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Brownboy13@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      post incarceration.

      Author of this article is serving a life sentence. He’s been in prison over 10 years so far, and won’t be eligible for parole for another 52 years. “Post incarceration”, he’ll be mailed to his next of kin in a tiny plastic bag.

      I do think he should be earning at least minimum wage for his work while imprisoned, but $6.25 of his $7.25/hr wages should be garnished and divided among the estates of his victims.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I would say this punishment would be both cruel and unusual.

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    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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

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