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by thejsa 824 days ago
The article covers this:

> So how does a prison laptop end up on eBay?

> The laptop that Zhang bought came from a state whose corrections department contracts with a Milwaukee-based nonprofit to dispose of its old laptops. But instead of recycling the devices, the organization resold them, selling out of 100 Securebooks after Zhang’s post went viral.

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Ah thanks, missed it!