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Board hears from formerly incarcerated reentry advocate and departments on tablets, education and visitation
Summary
A former inmate and program partners urged expansion of education and internet-enabled training as NDOC rolls out tablets; NDOC leaders said tablets will supplement—not replace—in-person visits and outlined program growth and capital upgrades.
Governor Lombardo and the Nevada Board of State Prison Commissioners heard public testimony and departmental updates on June 13 as the Nevada Department of Corrections described efforts to expand education, vocational training and tablet-based programming.
Jared Orcutt, identifying himself as the educational partnership programs coordinator at Truckee Meadows Community College but speaking on his own behalf, described three prior incarcerations and said the TMCC computer lab and the partnership with Northern Nevada Transitional Housing and NDOC ‘‘gave me a second chance’’ and ‘‘opened that door’’ to training and…
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