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BOP ROLLING OUT TABLET COMPUTERS BY END OF 2022

A reader last week asked about rumors he had heard about the Federal Bureau of Prisons rolling out Android-based tablets.

BOP Office of Public Affairs spokesman Donald Murphy told me that the BOP “is in the process of migrating to a next-generation media device, the Keefe SCORE 7c. This next-generation media device may be purchased by the incarcerated population through our commissary sales program. Currently, it is anticipated full migration will be complete by the end of the calendar year.”

The Keefe SCORE 7c is an Android-based tablet with security modifications to the OS for prison use. The Keefe Group says the tablet includes access to will have more than two dozen personal growth and reeentry tutorials, over 51,000 public-domain digital books, free preloaded game, over 7,000 instructional videos in 2,000 categories covering a broad range of common-core subjects and provide a foundation for high school equivalency testing, free FM radio and access to music purchase or subscription plans, and access to over 200 movies for rental.

Keefe says users will be able to communicate with family and friends using fee-based text, photo and videogram messaging.

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– Thomas L. Root