Re:Engineer bought prison laptop and 1,200 incarcerated folk...
by thejsa on Saturday March 09, 2024 @10:23AM
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The article covers this:
> So how does a prison laptop end up on eBay?
> The laptop that Zhang bought came from a state whose corrections department contracts with a Milwaukee-based nonprofit to dispose of its old laptops. But instead of recycling the devices, the organization resold them, selling out of 100 Securebooks after Zhang’s post went viral.
> So how does a prison laptop end up on eBay?
> The laptop that Zhang bought came from a state whose corrections department contracts with a Milwaukee-based nonprofit to dispose of its old laptops. But instead of recycling the devices, the organization resold them, selling out of 100 Securebooks after Zhang’s post went viral.