I think some pretty valid explanations have been shared with sources on the way contraband can be transported via the books. Not saying we can't use alternative solutions, but your comment doesn't really support further discussion.
> Not saying we can't use alternative solutions, but your comment doesn't really support further discussion
Sure it does. We can only discuss solutions if we’re willing to accurately describe ALL of the causes of the problem.
The article we’re discussing is entirely about how the “contraband” claim appears to be a flimsy excuse that both doesn’t impact the primary source of contraband (the guards), and obviously has nothing whatsoever to do with issues like:
> With e-books, the situation is even worse, as companies like Global Tel Link supply supposedly “free” tablets which actually charge their users by the minute to read. Even public-domain classics, available on Project Gutenberg, are only available at a price under these systems—and prisons, in turn, receive a 5% commission on every charge.
“Books can smuggle contraband” has no explanatory power wrt marked up access to free ebooks. Profit motive does.
It’s you, rather than the person you’re responding to, who seems to be shutting down discussion of solutions by trying to rule discussion of private for-profit prisons making profit-optimal decisions that may be net-worse for society somehow out-of-bounds.
