• Prisoners use Facebook
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[QUOTE]Facebook posts and videos have been spotted showing drugs and money, but they are not being posted by people in the community, but instead, prisoners. It is a trend being seen across the state of Tennessee, and West Tennessee is no exception. Those prisoners are posting these videos on their personal Facebook pages from inside prison walls. The posts display cash, drugs, and other items. Now, one West Tennessee district attorney says something has to be done to change the law to keep this from happening. "It's disturbing, it's offensive, and dangerous," said West Tennessee District Attorney Mike Dunavant. A recent investigation from WSMV in Nashville reveals more than 100 inmates in Tennessee prisons are operating their own Facebook pages. [B][I][U]In the videos, inmates boast about living the high life in prison. "Between me and you, this s--- ain't half bad," proclaimed one inmate.[/U][/I][/B] [/QUOTE] Bend over for the [URL="http://www.walb.com/story/22135285/investigation-shows-prisoners-displaying-drugs-and-cash-on-facebook-from-prison-cells"]soap[/URL]
Funny, considering I kept hearing a quote in Batman: Arkham City from some of the prisoners about updating their facebook status.
"Today I dropped the soap in the shower #YOLO"
[QUOTE=Balling Inmate]"Between me and you, this shit ain't half bad,"[/QUOTE] Can we just end 2013 right there and move forward? I don't think it's going to get better than this.
This is awful, the prisons should definitely be kept entirely sealed off from the world! This could lead to terrible things. Like actual transparency which would allow the society see the state of it's prisons. Or the prisoners keeping a link to the society, having ever so slightly better chance of rehabilitating. I hope somebody ensures this will come to an end.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;40533873]This is awful, the prisons should definitely be kept entirely sealed off from the world! This could lead to terrible things. Like actual transparency which would allow the society see the state of it's prisons. Or the prisoners keeping a link to the society, having ever so slightly better chance of rehabilitating. I hope somebody ensures this will come to an end.[/QUOTE] Or, if you look at it seriously, a gang-associated prisoner could contact their gang from inside the prison and direct the gang to do things for them. That could be anything from smuggling drugs to putting a hit out on someone. Direct contact to the outside world for high security prisoners is a bad idea. For lower security prisoners, not so much, but they should still be monitored.
10$ they post better than most people on FB.
[QUOTE=Foxtrot200;40534411]Or, if you look at it seriously, a gang-associated prisoner could contact their gang from inside the prison and direct the gang to do things for them. That could be anything from smuggling drugs to putting a hit out on someone. Direct contact to the outside world for high security prisoners is a bad idea. For lower security prisoners, not so much, but they should still be monitored.[/QUOTE] Having an inmate of a gang coordinate with others through facebook would honestly be one of the easiest ways ever to arrest more.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;40533873]This is awful, the prisons should definitely be kept entirely sealed off from the world! This could lead to terrible things. Like actual transparency which would allow the society see the state of it's prisons. Or the prisoners keeping a link to the society, having ever so slightly better chance of rehabilitating. I hope somebody ensures this will come to an end.[/QUOTE] the point of prison is to make prisoners feel really bad so they commit more crimes when they leave, silly
[QUOTE]Those prisoners are posting these videos on their personal Facebook pages from inside prison walls. The posts display cash, drugs, and other items.[/QUOTE] You're posting evidence on the internet for everyone to see you dense motherfuckers
[QUOTE=Foxtrot200;40534411]Or, if you look at it seriously, a gang-associated prisoner could contact their gang from inside the prison and direct the gang to do things for them. That could be anything from smuggling drugs to putting a hit out on someone. Direct contact to the outside world for high security prisoners is a bad idea. For lower security prisoners, not so much, but they should still be monitored.[/QUOTE] "Kill Joe Johnson. He's a damn rat." Lisa Jr and 50 other people liked this
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;40533873]This is awful, the prisons should definitely be kept entirely sealed off from the world! This could lead to terrible things. Like actual transparency which would allow the society see the state of it's prisons. Or the prisoners keeping a link to the society, having ever so slightly better chance of rehabilitating. I hope somebody ensures this will come to an end.[/QUOTE] Yes pedophiles and rapists planning their next victim!
[QUOTE=Foxtrot200;40534411]Or, if you look at it seriously, a gang-associated prisoner could contact their gang from inside the prison and direct the gang to do things for them. That could be anything from smuggling drugs to putting a hit out on someone. Direct contact to the outside world for high security prisoners is a bad idea. For lower security prisoners, not so much, but they should still be monitored.[/QUOTE] Yes, sadly that's a problem, since you have no way of monitoring the communication of the prisoners. You can't like, log everything they send out or, even read! It's basically completely impossible to record; what they do there, who they communicate with, and about what. And it couldn't possibly serve as further help within investigation, nope. [editline]5th May 2013[/editline] The only luck is that they aren't getting cellphones smuggled into the prisons, quite often, or don't send messages through even harder to control pathways. That would be catastrophic.
I actually wouldn't mind prisons allowing prisoners using social networking sites. As long as their accounts are well moderated.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;40535259]Yes, sadly that's a problem, since you have no way of monitoring the communication of the prisoners. You can't like, log everything they send out or, even read! It's basically completely impossible to record; what they do there, who they communicate with, and about what. And it couldn't possibly serve as further help within investigation, nope.[/QUOTE] We already do that with regular visits, that doesn't stop it from happening. Let's not make it even easier for them to commit crimes, shall we?
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;40533873]This is awful, the prisons should definitely be kept entirely sealed off from the world! This could lead to terrible things. Like actual transparency which would allow the society see the state of it's prisons. Or the prisoners keeping a link to the society, having ever so slightly better chance of rehabilitating. I hope somebody ensures this will come to an end.[/QUOTE] I get what you're saying, but FB has way too much potential for prisoners to exploit it. Besides, a well behaved prisoner still gets to do phone calls, letters, etc.
[QUOTE=Paramud;40535928]We already do that with regular visits, that doesn't stop it from happening. Let's not make it even easier for them to commit crimes, shall we?[/QUOTE] Except it's ironically sorta easier to keylog every single thing they do, and also, if they do communicate with somebody outside, it's more likely the people out won't watch out and gonna end up incriminating themselves and/or providing you with useful intel. It's not like a mob with their boss in the jail sit on their butts and do nothing, while his commands turn them into super-efficient crimelords. [editline]5th May 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=NO ONE;40536197]I get what you're saying, but FB has way too much potential for prisoners to exploit it. Besides, a well behaved prisoner still gets to do phone calls, letters, etc.[/QUOTE] Well if they get phone calls and letters then there's no reason to give them monitored access to facebook. I am not implying it should be uncontrolled or unmonitored, nor that it should be allowed to ALL prisoners, but in ways, it's far better background information source while not really having much bigger risk.
[QUOTE=dass;40534938]"Kill Joe Johnson. He's a damn rat." Lisa Jr and 50 other people liked this[/QUOTE] Joe Johnson liked this
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;40536229]Except it's ironically sorta easier to keylog every single thing they do, and also, if they do communicate with somebody outside, it's more likely the people out won't watch out and gonna end up incriminating themselves and/or providing you with useful intel. It's not like a mob with their boss in the jail sit on their butts and do nothing, while his commands turn them into super-efficient crimelords.[/QUOTE] Except they're not going to say "yo move the meth shipment to 123 Rainbow Road and give it to Julio Smith, who lives at..." They have codes. Having it automatically recorded in a text file isn't going to make it any easier for police to figure it out their crimes, but allowing criminals to wirelessly contact fellow gang members [b]does[/b] make it a hell of a lot easier for them to commit them.
I really don't mind prisoners using computers.
This isnt anything new. Prison around me has vending machines, Skype, Microwaves, and Email for the prisoners. [editline]5th May 2013[/editline] and access to their bank account
Everyone who works in the prisons knows that there's alot of drugs on the inside. They ignore it because if they didn't, if all of sudden you managed to stop all drugs in the prison, people would die or be seriously ill. I imagine alot of the drugs keep the prisoners out of trouble.
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