The article covers this: > So how does a prison laptop end up on eBay? > The laptop that Zhang bought came from a state whose corrections department contracts

The article covers this: > So how does a prison laptop end up on eBay? > The laptop that Zhang bought came from a state whose corrections department contracts with a Milwaukee-based nonprofit to dispose of its old laptops. But instead of recycling the devices, the organization resold them, selling out of 100 Securebooks after Zhang’s post went viral.