If You're In Prison In South Carolina, You Better Stay Off Facebook
February 15, 2015
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as posted by the channel"One of the reasons the American judicial system is so obsessed with providing peopledue process before depriving them of liberty is that prison is really, really awful. American prisons don’t just limit your movement and actions; they also attempt to limit your speech, your writing—even your thoughts.
Given that sad reality, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s new blockbuster report on Facebook censorship in the South Carolina prison system isn’t particularly surprising. Through a series of Freedom of Information Act requests, the EFF discovered that the South Carolina Department of Corrections made “Creating and/or Assisting With A Social Networking Site” a “Level 1 offense” in 2012. According to this rule, inmates commit a Level 1 violation every day that they access a social network—even if they do so indirectly, by, for instance, asking a family member to update their status. Under the new regime, prison officials have brought more than 400 disciplinary cases for using Facebook. Many of these inmates lose telephone and visitor privileges; some wind up in solitary confinement. One inmate received a sentence of 37 years in isolation for repeated Facebook usage."
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