Prison isn’t set up for today’s tech so we have to do legal work the old way
Get The Inside Story Newsletter Don’t miss our latest stories, delivered to your inbox once a week. Sign up Recently, my lawyer instructed me to read the original transcripts from my trial and other legal documents he sent me in preparation for my appeal. It was a reasonable request. Being able to read these kinds of legal documents helps us understand our cases and talk through details with our lawyers. The only problem was that he sent the documents to me on a flash drive, which we are generally not allowed to have at New Jersey State Prison. The only way to access flash drives from our lawyers is to request permission to review the material in a special, private section of our law library. But it can take days to have our review requests approved — and…
