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Depends on the prison, but if you're in maximum security prison, you may have bigger worries.

Certainly you’ll have bigger worries, but you’ll have this one too.

> Are people in prison allowed to sign into their Google accounts?

If it's so important to them, maybe their partners or family can login - or they can do a takeout and store their data in a hard drive. Who knows if Google services will be around when they get out, right?

> Who knows if Google services will be around when they get out, right?

Sometimes I am not even confident they'll be around tomorrow.

Perhaps not - but then again there are lots of things that people in prison are not allowed to do (that's kind of the point).