Left to right: NASCIO government affairs director Alex Whitaker, California acting CIO Russ Nichols, Washington CIO Bill Kehoe, Hawaii CIO Doug Murdock, Oregon Deputy CIO Jennifer Bjerke, Alaska CIO Bill Smith. (Colin Wood / Scoop News Group)
A new statewide plan to connect inmates and staff to digital resources is overturning old assumptions about the use of technology in the corrections system.