California Bought iPads for People in Prison and You’ll Never Guess What the Inmates Are Using Them For

by Mike LaChance May. 14, 2026 10:00 pm319 Comments

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Under Gavin Newsom, California has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to give electronic devices to prisoners. Can you guess what they’re using them for?

They’re using them to watch porn. Of course they’re using them for porn. Stevie Wonder could have seen this coming.

This is just another reminder that the taxpayers of California are among the most used and abused people in the country. They pay through the nose and this is what it gets them. Not better schools or safer streets. This.

FOX 11 in Los Angeles reports:

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California death row inmates watching porn on taxpayer-funded tablets, evading security controls: report

Condemned prisoners on California’s death row are partly filling their time by watching pornography and engaging in lewd conversations using taxpayer-funded tablets as the state continues its shift toward a Norwegian-inspired approach to rehabilitating criminals, according to reports.

In an effort to connect its prison population to the outside world, California issued around 90,000 tablets to inmates as part of a multimillion-dollar program where incarcerated people could send and receive messages in real time to loved ones amid a push for digital equity.

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The devices could also be used, in theory, for educational purposes. However, some have used the devices for more adult endeavors, the California Post reported.

The newspaper spoke with several death row inmates who claimed that users can evade security controls on the devices. Robert Maury, a serial rapist who strangled and killed at least three women in the 1980s, told the newspaper he viewed pornography on his taxpayer-funded digital tablet.

Inmates use the tablets to send nude images and watch porn, he said from a state prison in Stockton. Many watch through a video chat application where an inmate can call someone on the outside who can “put porn on their TV” for the inmate to watch.

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Do you think this will come up if Gavin Newsom runs for president? You bet it will.

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It’s just amazing how Democrats will bend over backwards for criminals. That is, when they’re not just setting them free with no jail time.

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Mike LaChance

Mike LaChance has been covering higher education and politics for Legal Insurrection since 2012. Since 2008 he has contributed work to the Gateway Pundit, Daily Caller, Breitbart, the Center for Security Policy, the Washington Free Beacon, and Ricochet. He has also written for American Lookout, Townhall, and Twitchy.

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