California Death Row Inmates Watching Porn on Taxpayer-Funded Tablets, Evading Security Controls: Report
Inmates across California reportedly use the taxpayer-funded devices for pornography and explicit chats, while prosecutors say one prisoner used a tablet to exploit a minor.
- Governor Gavin Newsom's administration provided nearly 90,000 inmates with taxpayer-funded tablets to promote 'digital equity,' but critics report prisoners are using the devices to access pornography and groom minors.
- Under Governor Gavin Newsom, California has sought to transform its prison system into a Nordic-style rehabilitation program, dismantling San Quentin State Prison's death row and providing tablets at no cost to offenders.
- Nathaniel Ray Diaz, convicted of sex crimes against a 12-year-old girl, allegedly used a prison-issued tablet to exploit her from Avenal State Prison. Prosecutors alleged Diaz made thousands of calls to the minor.
- The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation described tablets as 'tightly controlled education tools,' yet Douglas Eckenrod, former deputy director of California's adult parole operations, warned the state has 'opened the floodgates to abuse.'
- Newsom has offered no indication he will reverse the program. The new vendor contract allows for four one-year extensions that could push total costs to $315 million despite ongoing safety concerns.
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Newsom lashes out at report of inmates using his tablet program to groom children — and Christopher Rufo fires back
California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom is furious over a report claiming that his "digital equity" program has allowed death row inmates to watch pornography and groom children on the outside.The report at City Journal quoted prisoners and others who said the restrictions on tablets provided by the Newsom program were easily circumvented by those seeking porn and children.'We have the receipts — and this is something the governor's office simply …
California death row inmates watching porn on taxpayer-funded tablets, evading security controls: report
A report reveals California death row inmates are bypassing security on taxpayer-funded tablets to access pornography, raising sharp questions about prison oversight and state-funded rehabilitation programs.
Bombshell Investigation Finds Death Row Inmates Hack Prison Tablets For Taxpayer-Funded Porn
Governor Gavin Newsom’s $189 million initiative to modernize California’s correctional system has come under fire following a bombshell investigation revealing that taxpayer-funded digital tablets are being used by death row inmates to access pornography and groom minors. While the Newsom administration heralded the distribution of free tablets to every inmate in the state as a step toward “digital equity” and “rehabilitation,” serial killers an…
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