[egberts1]

Often times, written form of communication are denied to arrested folks as the narrow, generally cylindrical implement for writing, drawing, or marking, consisting of a thin rod of graphite, colored wax, or similar substance encased in wood or held in a mechanical holder, can be used as a weapon.

[franga2000]

Crayons? Those bendy pencils? A very thick and blunt pencil?? Finger paint??? Hell, give them a typewriter! How is this even remotely an excuse?

[egberts1]

Seen a typewriter as of late?

[franga2000]

Yes! Our municipality building has a dusty basement room full of them and there are a handful of companies still producing new ones (although expensive).

But even better, just get those <100$ ARM/baytrail laptops and have them boot straight into a kernel with no network stack and launch only Xorg and AbiWord.