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Technology Changes Prison Life
By newsobserver.com
Published: 01/03/2011

ATLANTA -- A counterfeiter at a Georgia state prison ticks off the remaining days of his three-year sentence on his Facebook page. He has 91 digital "friends." Like many of his fellow inmates, he plays the online games FarmVille and Street Wars.

He does it all on a Samsung smart phone, which he says he bought from a guard. And he used the same phone to help organize a short, nonviolent strike among inmates at several Georgia prisons last month.

Technology is changing life inside prisons across the country at the same rapid-fire pace it is changing life outside. A smart phone hidden under a mattress is the modern-day file inside a cake.

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