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"Googling" from prison: How incarcerated people get access to information.

This is part of Time, Online, a Future Tense series on how technology is changing prison. As was the case after my father’s death, Google, and the people who connected me to it, became one of my few sources of information on the outside world. Lots of people might be willing to look up “What’s the brother’s name in Family Guy,” but questions related to my writing pursuits or goals after prison quickly become more complex, and require more willingness to sort through information. “OK, Grandma, go to Google and type in ‘Emerging Voices Fellowship,’ ” I instructed her recently over the phone. When I ask people on the outside what I should be ready for as I prepare to go out into a world filled with new technology that’s hard for me to even grasp, the only thing they can think to say is “Everything is different.” Just as suddenly as I was forced to disconnect, I’ll be forced to reconnect.

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