March 16, 2004
The first one's free
LexisNexis has announced it will begin offering its legal databases to prisons, beginning with (surprise, surprise) my home state of California.
Apparently, law libraries in prisons were outdated and understaffed (again, surprise, surprise) so Lexis has jumped to the aid of all the innocent people wrongly imprisoned and has installed touch screen kiosks for prisoners to use in researching their pro se appeals. The screens are shatter-proof so as to prevent prisoners from cracking the screen and using the broken glass as a shiv. I had no idea an innocent person rabidly researching the law to prove his innocence would be so prone to destroy property and then use it as a weapon. Go figure.
Apparently, law libraries in prisons were outdated and understaffed (again, surprise, surprise) so Lexis has jumped to the aid of all the innocent people wrongly imprisoned and has installed touch screen kiosks for prisoners to use in researching their pro se appeals. The screens are shatter-proof so as to prevent prisoners from cracking the screen and using the broken glass as a shiv. I had no idea an innocent person rabidly researching the law to prove his innocence would be so prone to destroy property and then use it as a weapon. Go figure.
