We do actually want to rehabilitate these folks and teach them valuable life skills right? How is banning books on HTML and Excel helpful? As a tax-paying Oregonian, this is a little baffling.
This is mainly speculation so I’d genuinely appreciate it if anyone with direct knowledge of the situation could correct me if I’m way off base here.
Pretty interesting though they allow access to computers. Never heard of that. I always imagined reading dusty old law books if your prison has a library and writing things down by hand. However some lawbook's are very outdated, there's some old book often cited claiming you don't need a driver license to drive because you aren't in commerce... Yeah try that one with a cop and I doubt it will go very well for you.
I like to watch Orange Is the New Black on Netflix and they pretty much did an entire season about private prisons. I've already knew a bit about them though but maybe talking about them in a comedy might get people thinking or doing their own research.
So many messed up things going on in the world though, I doubt many people have enough time to even care or know what to even do to help make things better.
No. We want to punish them.
(I don't agree with this, but it's how the prison system is run in the US)