This week, we take a break from our usual discussions around cybercime and focus on technology use inside of prisons. With education programs becoming increasingly digital and online, multiple vendors have come along promising digital education programs for prison rehabilitation programs.

Our guest, Dr. Thomas Dearden, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech, has been conducting research on the impacts of technology in prison and the outcomes of the digital education in rehabilitation programs.

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Learn more about Dr. Dearden: https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-sociology/faculty/thomas-dearden.html

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