Inmates update Facebook while in Jail (video)

[Joey Fuller]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1q5x8sNbzc

"This video will evoke varying degrees of emotions and opinions. My main observation is that even Prison cannot stop the free flow of ideas, the desire to communicate, and use of the Internet.

The identities and crimes of the human beings locked up in jail are unclear, although the video does give some background info. My heart goes out to the families who lost loved ones to the violent acts of individual criminals.

My concern is the waste of time, money, and resources that are directed towards the imprisonment of individual who commit non violent crimes."
http://www.tnsonsofliberty.net/2013/05/inmates-update-facebook-while-in-jail.html

[better-dead-than-fed]

Prison fosters criminal syndication? Who knew.

"Nearly half (48%) of inmates in federal prison were serving time for drug offenses in 2011". (http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/ascii/p11.txt)

Procunier v. Martinez, 416 US 396 - Supreme Court 1974 (http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11763159251781700837):


The wife of a prison inmate who is not permitted to read all that her husband wanted to say to her has suffered an abridgment of her interest in communicating with him as plain as that which results from censorship of her letter to him. In either event, censorship of prisoner mail works a consequential restriction on the First and Fourteenth Amendments rights of those who are not prisoners.

Accordingly, we reject any attempt to justify censorship of inmate correspondence merely by reference to certain assumptions about the legal status of prisoners. Into this category of argument falls appellants' contention that "an inmate's rights with reference to social correspondence are something fundamentally different than those enjoyed by his free brother." This line of argument and the undemanding standard of review it is intended to support fail to recognize that the First Amendment liberties of free citizens are implicated in censorship of prisoner mail.