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My Dad Is in Prison. Here’s Why I Built an AI Chatbot for His Electronic Tablet.

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CJ Jones' father is incarcerated with questions about the outside world. The programmer built an AI chatbot to run on his dad's prison tablet to answer those questions. According to The Marshall Project, the chatbot has deepened their relationship.

Source: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/08/14/prison-ai-c...

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