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1) It sounds like he's not necessarily in 'solitary confinement' because he's got a cellmate. Sure he's separated from the rest of the prison population, but it
by pyre 13y ago
1) It sounds like he's not necessarily in 'solitary confinement' because he's got a cellmate. Sure he's separated from the rest of the prison population, but it's not the same situation as if he were really in solitary confinement.
2) Not allowing him access to his lawyer, or allowing his lawyer to be informed of his situation seems like it has to be against some sort of rule/law/regulation. If it isn't then we need to start calling up some legislators.
3) What's the deal with the 'you must wear a bra' rule? Someone in another thread said that this was standard. Why? I could maybe understand a rule that said "no bras" if they thought that a bra could be used to smuggled something somehow, but forcing all women visiting to wear bras seems odd. Are they afraid of a prison riot over a bra-less woman?
4) Are there really rules against him distributing information to the outside world via friends or his lawyer? What is the point of such rules? For some stupid edge-case of suppressing mafia bosses from operating from prison? Are they trying to stop criticism of the jail conditions from reaching the outside (i.e. anti-whistle-blower)?
5) If Weev really did break some sort of prison rules, then why will they not confirm why he was put in administrative detention? He's obviously there for a reason, why will they not disclose it? Makes it come across like they feel that disclosing the reason would look worse than just withholding it and waiting for all this to blow over.
6) Why are they not giving him gluten-free meals if that's 'what the doctor ordered?' If something is medically necessary, and it's withheld from an inmate, why is this not a punishable offense?
- sliverstorm 13y agoAre there really rules against him distributing information to the outside world via friends or his lawyer I think you may have misread: The penitentiary also threatened to (list of actions) if he tries to communicate with the outside world via Internet again. They don't object to him communicating with friends or his lawyer; they don't want him active online. What is the point of such rules? For some stupid edge-case of suppressing mafia bosses from operating from prison? That's what comes to my mind as well. Weev isn't a mafia boss, but he is a black hat hacker, and he is (was?) a part of Goatse Security. The Internet is his medium. If you throw him in prison and grant him free access to the Internet, have you really done anything? It's actually kind of an interesting conundrum- a thief is removed from the streets to stop him from thieving. Here we have a hacker we have tried to put into a system meant for a thief, when maybe the better analogue would be to remove him from his streets, i.e. the Interenet, instead of putting him in prison to remove him from the street. House arrest and monitored or limited access to the Internet has always seemed like one of the better options the penitentiary system has tried for "Internet criminals".
- wnight 13y agoHis friends should just keep tweeting as if from him, and pretend it's being leaked. Drive the administration crazy trying to stop it.
- gknoy 13y agoI disagree. His friends could communicate on their own with the internet, saying "This is what Weev said when he was talking to me...", or in some other way make it clear that it's not weev talking to the outside. That would likely still piss people off and get him in hot water, though.
- pyre 13y ago| grant him free access to the Internet How? I thought that the Tweets weren't directly from him, but were posted to Twitter at his request by friends that had his credentials. So he's not allowed to pass messages to friends that are then distributed to the world via Twitter?
- sliverstorm 13y agoTelling his friends to post a message to Twitter sounds like communicating with the outside world via his friends. Perhaps we need more detail here.