Facebook Use in U.K. Prison: A Smoking Gunn
Somehow, this doesn’t seem like the sort of social networking Mark Zuckerberg had in mind when he created Facebook. But it does seem like maximum-security prisons in Great Britain aren’t so secure when it comes to their firewalls.
Colin Gunn, who ran a criminal empire in Nottingham and is currently serving a 35-year sentence for conspiracy to murder, used Facebook to communicate with 565 friends and to threaten countless enemies, The Sunday Times reported.
Gunn’s Facebook page was shut down Friday, but The Sunday Times reported that the inmate claimed prison governors allowed him to set up the page on the social-networking site, as it was his legal right.
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