[telephonetemp]

Time when you can fiddle with cards and write down cryptic series of numbers without attracting undue attention is probably scarce.

[mistercow]

The cards just look like you're playing some form of single player game (hence the name). If you had a journal to write in, then with some practice, you could pass it off as idly playing the game while thinking of what to write.

[DanBC]

> write.

How many prisoners have free access to pens or pencils?

(Not snarky, I really don't know)

[evacuationdrill]

In a recent thread on reddit, a former inmate listed what was issued in county/state/federal, and paper with a pencil or a pen with a rubber body was in all of them.

[telephonetemp]

Can you give us a link?

[evacuationdrill]

I wish I could, but I can't remember what the thread was about originally. I tried searching, but I can't find it.