Watching Porn on California’s Death Row – Under Gavin Newsom, state prisoners are turning $189m in taxpayer-funded tablets into personal sex machines.

…I thought mobile devices were just *smuggled* into correctional facilities.

>As part of this transformation, the Newsom administration [approved](https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/03/prison-tablets/#:~:text=The%20changes%20follow%20a%20legal%20battle%20and%20subsequent%20bidding%20war%20between%20the%20two%20national%20companies%20that%20provide%20these%20services%2C%20Securus%20and%20Viapath/Global%20Tel%20Link.%20Securus%20came%20out%20ahead%2C%20claiming%20the%20four%2Dyear%20%24189%20million%20contract%20and%20replacing%20Viapath.%C2%A0) a $189 million contract to provide new digital tablets

It’s all looting, there is always a middleman.