We do a bunch of shit in Ohio that doesn't make sense.
The medical cannabis market is regulated to sell cannabis flower by tenth ounces. If you don't know why this is weird, that's okay. If you know why that's weird, it's fuckin weird right?
That's not comparable to this example though, our prisons should be a place for growth and rehabilitation, this is just sick and twisted.
Who cares if an inmate even wants to pursue software engineering as a career? Anything that could be used, by them, to enhance their education in some way, no matter how useless it may seem, should be allowed.
Damn jails are capturing groups of people and forcing them into vicious cycles of recidivism.