to review materials and prepare for trial. the jail has made extra accommodations for his use of the laptop providing him a laptop to ensure he can use it in the unit and not in the separate workroom. although the jail doesn't allow him to send or receive e-mails, he has gotten a work around. in order to exchange e-mails he reads and composes e-mails on a second laptop that is shuttled in and out of the facility by his legal team. when the team takes the laptop from the jail it reconnects to the internet and manafort's e-mails are transmitted. the reason trump's campaign chairman paul manafort is in jail right now is for alleged witness tampering because he violated the terms of his house arrest by allegedly trying to contact witnesses in his case and according to them he tried to get them to commit perjury. now apparently he's secretly sending e-mails from jail on his