Kentucky prisoners hack state-issued tablets to create more than $1 million to spend on media

In Kentucky, several hundred prisoners took advantage of a glitch in their state-issued tablets to digitally create more than $1 million that didn’t actually exist. Incarcerated people in Kentucky are given tablets as a way to pay for email, video calls, movies and games — at a steep price.

John Cheves, the government accountability reporter at the Lexington Herald-Leader, broke the story.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.