Prison Inmates Increasingly Access Facebook On Mobile Contraband
Alarming numbers of prison inmates have the ability to access Facebook via mobile devices, and corrections officials can't confiscate the cell phones fast enough.
Prison officials can’t seem to confiscate inmates’ cell phones quickly enough, and many of the devices include Facebook applications that the prisoners use to regularly update profiles.
According to an article in The New York Times, California corrections officers confiscated almost 9,000 phones from inmates last year, and officials in other states also had four-digits worth of confiscations in 2009. All of these devices have social media on them, as an inmate at Smith State Prison in Georgia told the newspaper, “Almost everybody has a phone.
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