Electronic tablets used for practicing religion, legal research and communication with the outside world were suddenly confiscated from four blocks of Dauphin County Prison last week.
Before then, each person housed in the jail was allowed to have a tablet in their cell, largely for those legally protected uses and sending messages and calling family and friends.
That access ended on Thursday when prison staff confiscated all tablets from people housed in the restricted housing units, P3-P6, PennLive has learned…