Inmates should be given iPads and allowed to speak to their families over Skype, a review commissioned by Michael Gove is expected to suggest today.
The study into prison education, seen by the Guardian, recommends greater use of 'in-cell technology, such as iPads, so prisoners can learn independently'. 
The review, conducted by Dame Sally Coates, is due to be published alongside radical reforms which David Cameron has made the centrepiece  of the Queen's speech.
Its recommendations, extracts of which were seen by The Guardian, come as Mr Cameron announces what he called 'the biggest shake-up of prisons since the Victorian times'.
and they include increased use of satellite tags which will mean less prison time for convicts.
In a move likely to alarm some on the Tory Right, lower-risk criminals with jobs will only serve jail time at the weekends. 
During the week, they will be free to carrying on working – if employers agree – to avoid them becoming unemployed and wrecking families.
Their movements will be monitored by satellite tags, which have been beset by technology problems, to be trialled initially in eight police areas.

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