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MEDIA RELEASE: Eight Fingers and a Keyboard Short: Prisoners Locked Out of Learning

Media Release April 16, 2025 “‘No,’ said the Minister for Corrections when asked whether it’s a serious disadvantage for prisoners to be typing with ‘two thumbs instead of ten fingers’ (p89) on computer tablets. With that problematic answer to the Parliament, he effectively explained how NSW has one of the highest recidivism rates in Australia […]

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Court-Ordered Computers for Prisoners – South Africa

“We welcome the judgment of the South African Constitutional Court in the Ntuli case, which orders that correctional facilities allow prisoners access to computers in cells for educational purposes. This decision prevents South African correctional facilities from instituting policies which ban the use of computers in cells, because such policies infringe upon the rights of

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