Do you have a tablet? Did you buy your own tablet if you indeed own one? Well, while you paid for yours, lucky inmates in California, including many on “death row”, get a FREE tablet at the expense of the taxpayer. Thank you, Gavin Newsom. Remember, this is the guy who is going to be running for President of the United States. And most likely will win the Democratic nomination.
The program giving free tablets to prison inmates in California is part of the “California Model” rehabilitation initiative run by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation under Gavin Newsom. The tablet effort itself did not suddenly begin statewide under a single announcement; rather, it started as a pilot program in 2018, when select prisons began testing secure tablets through prison communications contractor ViaPath.
After Newsom became governor in 2019, the effort expanded as part of his administration’s broader prison rehabilitation and “normalization” agenda, eventually growing into a statewide rollout. This is when their BETA test went full moron.
By August 2021, California had begun broadly distributing free tablets across the prison system, and by 2023–2025 roughly 90,000 incarcerated inmates had access to devices used for monitored phone calls, messaging, educational content, legal materials, e-books, and entertainment, without open internet access.
Doesn’t this all sound so good and wholesome? Phone calls, and studying, and armchair lawyer documents, and oh yeah….e-books, because these f*cking prisoners love them some Stephen King.
But there seems to be one itsy bitsy problem. The inmates have found a way to circumvent the rules, firewalls, and the monitoring, as they are routinely watching porn and harassing women and others in the outside world. And in many cases, it’s not harassment. It is just “hoochie mamas” sending content of themselves twerking etc. for the inmates to drool over. It must feel so good to know that you are making the day of that murderer or “chomo”.
The condemned prisoners on California’s death row are partly filling their time by watching pornography and engaging in lewd conversations using taxpayer-funded tablets as the state continues its shift toward a “Norwegian-inspired approach” to rehabilitating criminals, according to reports. How funny is this? There is one difference. The Norwegian prisoners are nowhere near as scummy as the California prisoners. Not by a long shot.
The California Post spoke with several death row inmates who claimed that users can evade security controls on the devices. Robert Maury, a serial rapist who strangled and killed at least three women in the 1980s, told the newspaper he viewed pornography on his taxpayer-funded digital tablet.
Inmates use the tablets to send nude images and watch porn, he said from a state prison in Stockton. Many watch through a video chat application where an inmate can call someone on the outside who can “put porn on their TV” for the inmate to watch.
In one instance, Maury said he received a topless photo from a 22-year-old German psychology (pig) student who was “hoping that I would share my story with her for her class project.” He also claimed he “flirted” with her “for a while.”
Samuel Amador, another serial killer sentenced to death, said porn videos are delivered in short 30-second clips and that inmates also have sexually explicit conversations through their tablets.
“I watch porn and short clips of my family at the beach,” he told the Post. “We get around their bulls—,” he said of the explicit exchanges.
Nathaniel Ray Diaz, a convicted child sex offender, allegedly made thousands of calls to a girl he was accused of sexually abusing and threatened her with a gun from inside Avenal State Prison, authorities said. Prosecutors said he told the girl to send him sexually explicit images, which he received through a third party.
Jamar Tucker, an inmate at High Desert State Prison convicted of killing three men, said he has received videos of women “dancing … in a thong” despite rules that prohibit such material. He uses racy photos for sexual pleasure, he added.
While the tablets themselves are provided at no cost to the inmates, usage fees apply; messages cost 5 cents per text, and video calls cost 16 cents per minute, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).
The office of Gov. Gavin Newsom referred questions about the continuation of the tablet program to the CDCR. A spokesperson for the CDCR told Fox News Digital that reports about prison inmates watching porn on tablets “is not journalism.”
“It’s a sensationalized mashup of falsehoods, speculation, and quotes from convicted murderers presented as fact,” the spokesperson said, noting that prison tablets are “secure, monitored rehabilitation tools with no open internet access, used for education, family communication, and reentry services that improve safety and reduce contraband.”
The CDCR told the Post the tablets were “tightly controlled education tools” that provided inmates with “access to the Bible, education and reentry resources that actually reduce crime.” LOL…yes, they actually said “access to the Bible”. I spit my f*cking Faygo out when I read that one.
Do you think this is a good idea? Let SFL.media know your opinion. Personally, this seems like an April Fool’s Day joke. But it ain’t. It’s California. It’s f*cking Clown World!
I thought the videos were monitored. My son and I do videos and they are done in the dayroom in full view. Don’t see how this could happen.