HOLLIDAYSBURG — Inmates at the Blair County Prison could gain access to correctional-grade computer tablets this year, pending the county’s renewal of a telephone and communication services contract.

This essay is part of Time, Online, a Future Tense series on how technology is changing prison. It’s published in partnership with Open Campus, a nonprofit newsroom focused on higher education.

Hogan is a doctoral student in computer science at UC San Diego and lives in Santee. This fall will be my third time teaching introductory computer science inside Richard J. Donovan Correctional ...

It isn’t uncommon for people to go to prison for breaking into corporate computers and stealing data. It’s rare, though, for someone to be sent back to jail for breaking into a prison computer system ...

A former Massachusetts prison inmate has been given an 18-month prison sentence for hacking prison computers while he was incarcerated. Spammers in the slammer Francis “Frank” Janosko, 44, was ...

A former Massachusetts prison inmate has been given an 18-month prison sentence for hacking prison computers while he was incarcerated. Francis “Frank” Janosko, 44, was sentenced Tuesday in Federal ...

CORRECTIONS Victoria is investigating after private files of prisoners became available to a jail’s inmates in an alarming computer security breach. The breach has raised concerns that the information ...

A former Massachusetts prison inmate has been given an 18-month prison sentence for hacking prison computers while he was incarcerated. A former Massachusetts prison inmate has been given an 18-month ...