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Advocates say prison's LexisNexis access has been broken for months; deputy warden says digital access remains available
Summary
Advocates told the Lackawanna County Prison Board on Jan. 22 that the prison's law-library access via tablets has been unreliable since August and that incarcerated people in restrictive housing lack consistent access to legal research and printing.
Advocates for incarcerated people told the Lackawanna County Prison Board on Jan. 22 that the prison's law-library access has been unreliable since August and that inmates in restrictive housing lack access to tablets or any reliable way to print legal documents.
"Inside the prison, there's no physical law library. There's an app on the tablet, but the app has been broken and inconsistently available for the past six months, so since August," said Maggie Craig, a Scranton-based advocate, describing repeated problems and an ongoing…
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