When Ruben Burgos was incarcerated at Rikers earlier this year, he used a city-issued electronic tablet to turn poetry into music. Other detainees used tablets to watch movies, read books and participate in job training. Now the tablets have gone away.
Stanley Richards, a former city correction official who was involved in managing the tablet program at Rikers, said tablets were intended to be used as a tool for good behavior.
Richards acknowledged that the tablets can be difficult for officers to oversee. They had to be returned every day to be charged, and if a detainee broke a tablet he may steal someone else’s, Richards said.
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