In 2021, Bryan Collier, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said that tablets would “fundamentally change” communication for the state’s more than 100,000 prison inmates.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Electronic tablets are coming to the Harris County Jail. They won't cost taxpayers a penny, and administrators say they will make the jail safer and help inmates by allowing ...

CLEVELAND COUNTY, Okla. (KFOR) — Inmates at the Cleveland County Detention Center (CCDC) received their own tablet device that will be used for education, communication, and well-being purposes. The ...

Almost nobody outside of the Kentucky Department of Corrections has heard about how several hundred prison inmates hacked their state-issued, for-profit computer tablets to create more than $1 million ...

A man plays a game in the Brothers in Arms cell block, a new veteran-focused program, at the Harris County Joint Processing Center, part of the county jail system, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in ...

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In 2021, Bryan Collier, executive ...