[metmom]

I’m glad to see an irate has finally learned to be productive is now a contributing member of society. This should be encouraged.

Considering the difficulty he had in getting books and correspondence, it's clearly not.

I know someone who is incarcerated and he had much the same trouble.

If they want lower recidivism they need to do something about providing these inmates with an education or life skill that can actually be useful

[Jonty30]

Unfortunately, the reality is that unreformed inmates use these privileges to smuggle in drugs and other contraband. They wreck it for everybody.

That’s why matchbooks,in this case, are only allowed in by approved vendors,because unapproved ones would use the textbooks to smuggle in drugs.

It is why you can’t even have a ballpount pen, because of unreformed inmates. It is why he had to agree to keep these textbooks in a locked room and use them under supervision.

[Pajamajan]

"If they want lower recidivism they need to do something about providing these inmates with an education or life skill that can actually be useful"

True. Incarceration is supposed to be about rehabilitation.

President Trump has put in programs to help.

[ModelBreaker]

“If they want lower recidivism they need to do something about providing these inmates with an education or life skill that can actually be useful.”

The problem is if you give inmates internet access, they usually skip math and run scams or gang leaders communicate with their gangs.