{"__content__"=>"\n Objectives\n \n \n Methods\n \n \n Results\n \n \n Conclusions\n \n ", "p"=>[{"__content__"=>"Evaluate Washington’s prison-issued tablets, which aim to expand services and enhance institutional safety."}, {"__content__"=>"Staggered adoption difference-in-differences with monthly administrative data from 12 prisons, January 2019 - March 2023. Outcomes include total infractions, serious infractions, drug incidents, and cellphone violations. The Callaway and Sant’Anna estimator addresses treatment-effect heterogeneity, with time-varying covariates and wild cluster bootstrap standard errors. Event-study models evaluate pre-treatment trends and post-adoption changes."}, {"__content__"=>"Tablet deployment produced consistently negative but non-significant effects, with point estimates suggesting reductions in total infractions (− 19.5%), serious infractions (− 52.6%), drug incidents (− 32.3%), and cellphone violations (− 67.6%). Event-study analyses show similar pre-treatment trends and no immediate post-adoption disruption."}, {"__content__"=>"Tablets do not compromise institutional safety in the short term. Despite methodological limitations (short follow-up period and small sample), findings suggest possible benefits to enhancing outside communication and expanding access to services. Future research should examine longer-term effects and disentangle mechanisms of change."}]}