No doubt, many will criticize allowing prison inmates in Colorado to use electronic tablets as softhearted and wrongheaded. No doubt, many of those who have been victimized by crime will share that view. We’ll say from the outset that, as we take up this question, we definitely sympathize.

Indeed, it came as a rude shock that criminals in lock-up are getting to use tablets to listen to music, play games, text and call friends and loved ones.

Yet a review of the plan to pilot the tablets convinces us this idea is worth trying. As Colorado Department of Corrections Director Rick Raemisch tells us, this program is meant to make Colorado safer and reduce crime. The more we consider the potential for this program, the more we see his point.

Read more at The Denver Post.