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In reply to the discussion: South Carolina Inmate Receives 37 Years In Solitary Confinement For Updating Facebook [View all]Ex Lurker
(3,811 posts)11. Yeah, they use them to run gambling, drug, and extortion schemes from behind bars
and in some cases to order hits on other inmates or people outside the prisons. There are a lot of seriously bad people who are incarcerated. Not everyone was wrongfully convicted or somehow a victim of society. Prisoners should not have access to cell phones. They just shouldn't. I will say that giving someone else their account info to post on social media shouldn't be prohibited.
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South Carolina Inmate Receives 37 Years In Solitary Confinement For Updating Facebook [View all]
n2doc
Feb 2015
OP
The prison system has an insatiable thirst for brown and black bodies.
Exultant Democracy
Feb 2015
#9
Now, imagine someone used their smuggled phone to post secret messages to other criminals.
DetlefK
Feb 2015
#10
Yeah, they use them to run gambling, drug, and extortion schemes from behind bars
Ex Lurker
Feb 2015
#11
I am amazed that visitors were able to smuggle in a phone and give it to an inmate.
Shrike47
Feb 2015
#27