California Gave Every Student in Prison a Laptop. How Community Colleges Are Using Them ^1.9%

KQED - By Ella Carter-Klauschie, CalMatters - 6/22/2026, 9:30 PM

Anecdotal 15.8% - Overconfidence Bias 2.6% - Quote-first Misdirection 2.1%

Across California, every incarcerated individual taking a college course now has a tool those of us on the outside take for granted: a laptop. In the past three years, the prison system spent $23.2 million to distribute 30,000 laptops to all incarcerated students. Almost half of those went to the 13,000 inmates enrolled in community... more