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Prisoner laments reliance on floppy disks for appeals documents, limiting file sizes to 1.44 MB — prisoners allowed 20 floppy disks in cell, but USB flash sticks are banned in New Jersey system
Each prisoner is allowed 20 floppy disks, but flash drives are verboten.
Jorge Luis Alvarado, writing for the PJP(Prison Journalism Project), says it is difficult to keep abreast of developments in his case due to a prison-imposed digital divide. You may like “Inside New Jersey State Prison, it’s like 1985, where we rely on out-of-date word processors, electric typewriters and floppy disks that are going extinct in the free world,” laments Alvarado in his opinion piece, recently published by the PJP. While we can understand why prisons don’t have the latest computer technologies at the disposal of every inmate, the preference for floppy disks over flash drives seems kind of arbitrary.
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