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I feel like Facebook for inmates is a social good, not something that should be banned. The last thing I want is for inmates to leave prison with no friends or
by nostromo 11y ago
I feel like Facebook for inmates is a social good, not something that should be banned.
The last thing I want is for inmates to leave prison with no friends or family left to turn to.
- ryandrake 11y agoThink of it from the point of view of the (often for-profit) prison: The less of a chance of re-integrating with society the inmate leaves with, the greater chance he'll be back, which means more $$$ for the prison.
- mason240 11y ago>Think of it from the point of view of the (often for-profit) prison: Less than 5% of prisoners in the US are in privately run prisons.
- AlexWest 11y ago"Broken down to prison type, 19.1% of the federal prison population in the United States is housed in private prisons and 6.8% of the U.S. state prison population is housed in private prisons." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison#In_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison#In_the_United_St...
- 001sky 11y agoCurrently 1/3 of the US incarcerated population is neither in State or Federal custody. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Adult_incarceration_statistics_for_the_USA._Timeline.gif/350px-Adult_incarceration_statistics_for_the_USA._Timeline.gif https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Ad...
- clamprecht 11y agosource?
- leereeves 11y agoAccording to page 10 of http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpus12.pdf http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpus12.pdf 128k out of 2.228m inmates were in private prisons in 2012.
- gertef 11y agoEven publicly run prisons have contractors and unions.
- Thriptic 11y agoI assume the primary fear, whether justified or not, is that prisoners will use the service to coordinate gang or illicit activity.
- comrh 11y agoWhat about inmates harassing victims though? Or managing ongoing crime?
- kashkhan 11y agothe laws are already adequate to prevent such abuse.
- comrh 11y agoI could be applying it incorrectly but they just threw out a case of threats over facebook (http://time.com/3903322/facebook-online-free-speech/ http://time.com/3903322/facebook-online-free-speech/)
- kashkhan 11y agothere is often difference between a rant and a credible deliberate threat.
- comrh 11y agoA pretty thin line I would argue.
- ubernostrum 11y agoNo, the reporting on that case has been terrible. The Supreme Court's opinion didn't "throw out the case", or say that the guy goes free, or that what he did was OK. The Supreme Court's opinion just said that the prosecution did not meet the level of proof required by the law (specifically, the question revolved around whether it's enough to just show that the statement was interpreted by someone else as a threat, or whether it's also necessary to show the statement was intended as a threat by the person who made it). The prosecutors are free to hold a new trial and try to meet the higher level of proof. Most legal scholars who I've read on this seem to think it is trivially easy to meet that higher level of proof, and so it won't make convictions for threats much harder to obtain.
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