Gavin Newsom has sought to transform  California’s massive prison system into a Nordic-style rehabilitation program. Newsom has placed  a moratorium on all executions, transferred  condemned prisoners to facilities across  the state, and dismantled  San Quentin State Prison’s death row. As part of this transformation, the Newsom administration approved  a $189 million contract to provide new digital tablets — generic, flat-screen devices in a plastic shell — to every inmate  in the state prison system, at “ no cost ” to offenders. The administration heralded the effort  to replace inmates’ old  tablets — which were piloted  in 2018 and given  to nearly all prisoners by 2023 — as a step toward “ digital equity ” for “justice impacted” individuals .…