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County jail offers computer tablets to inmates for a fee
By meadvilletribune.com- Keith Gushard
Published: 10/28/2016

SAEGERTOWN — The Crawford County jail will offer computer tablets to inmates for a monthly fee, but without general education diploma programming on them.

Instead, the jail will explore adding free GED classes for inmates separately through the Crawford County READ Program, which runs the local adult literacy program.

At its meeting Thursday at the jail in Saegertown, the Crawford County Prison Board agreed by consensus to allow the jail's administration to offer computer tablets — but an inmate's family or friend must pay a monthly rental fee to Securus Technologies of Dallas for the inmate. The rental fee was estimated at $15 per month without GED courses and about $30 per month with GED course software.

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