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books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow
human rights Elizabeth Warren proposes a ban on private prisons and immigration facilities Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Florida inmates sue prisons for digitally confiscating the music they were sold Cory Doctorow
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Business Ikea locked workers into a room and forced them to watch "scaremongering" anti-union powerpoints Cory Doctorow
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