A very good friend of mine went through 2 years of prison due to a string of unfortunate incidents, and one of the best sysadmin/devops folks I know well before

A very good friend of mine went through 2 years of prison due to a string of unfortunate incidents, and one of the best sysadmin/devops folks I know well before, and even after. They read a lot of fiction, as the "system" was opposed even to me sending some custom car and hot-rod building books. Such weird insecurity, don't want any inmate smarter than the $15/hr guards. During his years inside, me as a linux user, found it almost impossible to use any/all services to communicate in the prison system. They were all built for only ie6 by the same little mafia of crappy IT web services companies that were entirely unusable outside of firing up an old xp instance. This was circa 2013. It made communications all but impossible, and really quite painful/expensive. Everything from telephony, to any sending of property is controlled by a small, nepotism/lobbyist-driven industry mafia that literally over charge everyone involved, raping all sides associated to the incarcerated. Government lobbying at its finest by the prison industry, and actively fight against any reform. After said person got out, went immediately back to making 6 figures with oddly a defense contractor even, and many others industries after. Employers were always happy to overlook some of his history for the graces that he was actually competent and produced results. Go figure, often hard to find even those without prison records that can do so.