Many prisoners go years without touching a smartphone—it means they struggle to navigate life on the outside

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Many prisoners go years without touching a smartphone. It means they struggle to navigate life on the outside

ShutterstockYou’d be hard pressed to find any aspect of daily life that doesn’t require some form of digital literacy. We need only to look back ten years to realise how quickly things have changed. In 2013, we were still predominantly buying paper bus tickets and using Facebook on a desktop computer. Now, we order food by scanning codes and tap our cards to make payments. Digital inclusion (someone’s ability to keep up with technology) is an …