This article is for readers who want to scrutinize relevant issues, such as the emphasis on technology instead of student learning; resource inadequacy; and correctional educators' beliefs about resource availability and accessibility. Pertinent issues regarding technological applications in correctional education are summarized: (1) Educators often maintain vast differences in student learning resulting from subtle technology differences; (2) There is a long history of correctional education support for a balanced view of technology, and a history of correctional education contributions to technology research; (3) Two major correctional education research studies address technological issues; (4) A three stage trajectory of 20th century teaching shows high technology mostly in the second stage; and (5) Technology is tangential to the correctional education function (student learning and maturation); good teachers are the best correctional education resource. (Author abstract modified)