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This essay is part of Time, Online, a Future Tense series on how technology is changing prison. It’s published in partnership with Open Campus, a nonprofit newsroom focused on higher education.

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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s a computer, a monitor, an internet communicator, and one of the most iconic lines of tech in history. But ...