b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: TravisBickle (Travis), 信区: Military
标 题: 马里兰要给监狱里犯人发iPAD
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Aug 15 14:35:38 2013, 美东)
Maryland’s attorney general has a creative solution to end the revolving
door of prisons: Give inmates iPads. He says giving inmates access to tablet
computers will teach inmates and keep them in touch with social networks.
He even proposes allowing inmates to have limited access to e-mail.
Gansler proposes tablet computers for inmates
By Erin Cox, The Baltimore Sun
Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler pushed a novel solution Monday
for closing what he called the "revolving door" of ex-offenders returning to
prisons.
Give inmates tablet computers.
As Gansler envisions it, the proposal would help offenders build both
education credentials and social support before they leave prison.
The gubernatorial hopeful says the wireless devices would replace brick-and-
mortar libraries and classrooms in the state's prison system, providing each
inmate with an Android tablet that could connect with e-books, the state's
library system, law resources and online learning programs.
They would also allow limited — and monitored — email access, so inmates
could connect with family members.
"It has to work," Gansler said. "It's common sense that it will work."
The tablet idea is one element of Gansler's 10-part proposal for integrating
former inmates into communities. Statistics show that roughly half of the
offenders who are released will return to the state's prison system within
three years. The most recent state data available puts the rate at 43
percent.
Gansler, who presented his plan in Baltimore at the latest in a series of
meetings outlining his platform for governor, called the state's approach to
re-entry a "policy mess."
The Android proposal drew concern from some in the corrections world,
particularly in light of the recent federal indictment of a dozen Baltimore
City Detention Center guards, who are accused of smuggling in cell phones to
help the Black Guerrilla Family gang run a drug ring.
"There's a lot of challenges with providing Internet access to inmates,"
said Nancy G. La Vigne, director of the Justice Policy Center at the Urban
Institute. "There's a real concern — I think a valid one — that access to
the outside can threaten both inmates and staff.
"While it's innovative to think about delivering education with new
technology, a lot of things need to be sorted out."
In a presentation to the Corrections Technology Association in June entitled
"iPads for Inmates", the Virginia firm HomeWAV LLC listed what it said were
the positive benefits: social and job skills, mentoring and rehabilitation.
The cons: "gangs," "nudity," "corruption."
"It's a fascinating concept," said Robert Coombs, spokesman for the National
Reentry Resource Center, a policy group.
Only a few inmates in Maryland have Internet access, state corrections
spokesman Rick Binetti said. All are low-security, pre-release inmates who
are permitted to use the Internet only to look for jobs, and only under the
direct supervision of correctional officers.
Several states have set up Web kiosks that give limited access to inmates. A
company called JPay sells a $49.99 mini-tablet to inmates in prisons in
Virginia and Louisiana. Access is limited to music, games and a few other
applications.
A New York startup called American Prison Data Systems has been shopping the
idea of an indestructible 7-inch Android tablet that states would purchase
for inmates' personal use. CEO Christopher Grewe said he expects to finish
negotiating pilot projects in three states by the end of 2013.
He proposes giving one to each inmate in a low or medium-security prison to
limit potential fights. He said they would be designed so that they couldn't
be converted into weapons.
Each device would come with free access to libraries and legal resources,
and cost $500 per year per inmate.
Maryland spends an average of $38,383 per year per prisoner, the Vera
Institute of Justice reported last year. Grewe has pitched his idea as a way
for states to improve education opportunities for inmates and save money on
maintaining expensive classrooms and libraries.
While prisons have been quick to adopt new forms of technology for
surveillance and security, most have been hesitant to make technology
available to inmates.
Grewe said that algorithms and a 24-hour center in Ohio would scan all
outgoing and incoming email on a 12- to 24-hour delay, and that devices
could be heavily restricted or shut off remotely.
"We can filter it five ways to Sunday," he said. Prisons, he said, "can't
postpone dealing with the digital revolution any longer."
Gansler, in pitching his idea to a room full of people who work with
offenders, suggested anyone who has seen the Oscar-nominated film "The
Shawshank Redemption" knows libraries can be used as a means of transporting
contraband.
Replacing them with more secure tablets, he said, would save money and make
sense.
"We have the ability in the 21st century to educate children online,"
Gansler said. "You can learn a language online. … Why can't we educate our
offenders?" | m********a
发帖数: 1041 | 2 他們還真的很認真地在討論呢!
"為了要讓囚犯可以在出獄之前就建立好良好的人際關係以達到減少再入獄的機率" 這
個理由就足夠了嗎?
tablet
Monday
【在 b*****d 的大作中提到】
: 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
: 发信人: TravisBickle (Travis), 信区: Military
: 标 题: 马里兰要给监狱里犯人发iPAD
: 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Aug 15 14:35:38 2013, 美东)
: Maryland’s attorney general has a creative solution to end the revolving
: door of prisons: Give inmates iPads. He says giving inmates access to tablet
: computers will teach inmates and keep them in touch with social networks.
: He even proposes allowing inmates to have limited access to e-mail.
: Gansler proposes tablet computers for inmates
: By Erin Cox, The Baltimore Sun
| s******t
发帖数: 12883 | 3 就算这个idea work, 为什么廉价的android机， 而用豪华的ipad.
tablet
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【在 b*****d 的大作中提到】
: 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
: 发信人: TravisBickle (Travis), 信区: Military
: 标 题: 马里兰要给监狱里犯人发iPAD
: 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Aug 15 14:35:38 2013, 美东)
: Maryland’s attorney general has a creative solution to end the revolving
: door of prisons: Give inmates iPads. He says giving inmates access to tablet
: computers will teach inmates and keep them in touch with social networks.
: He even proposes allowing inmates to have limited access to e-mail.
: Gansler proposes tablet computers for inmates
: By Erin Cox, The Baltimore Sun
| l******t
发帖数: 12659 | | j*****v
发帖数: 7717 | 5 马里兰州一年花4万块养个犯人，多一个iPad也才多个零头
猴德要把犯人赶出去，原来真是为省钱 | w****2
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