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Across California, every incarcerated individual taking a college course now has a tool those of us on the outside take for granted: a laptop.
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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 college, who are increasingly doing their coursework online.
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