extremely mad because my relative in American prison has let me know that from now on, instead of being charged once per book or per song and having the files added permanently to his account, he's going to ALSO be charged by the minute to read or listen to music on the tablets that are the only things they're allowed to use.

reminder that paying prisoners (vastly) less than minimum wage is legal in the US because they're defined as an exception to anti-slavery laws.

I'm pretty sure he's also going to lose access to all the compressed-like-it's-1999 jpegs of Odin that I was charged 25 cents each to send him through the world's worst email interface.
@0xabad1dea is it permitted for people on the outside to send gifts of paper books to named prisoners? Because I'd be more than happy to do so to your family member? Books are imho a human right and a precious gift...
@Ruth_Mottram
More and more that isn't an option because "drugs" but really because they can't charge as much for processing a package.
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