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South Carolina inmates collectively get almost 20 years of solitary confinement for rap video
By nydailynews.com- Alfred Ng
Published: 10/22/2015

Talk about getting a bad rap.

Seven South Carolina prison inmates are facing the music for a viral rap video they filmed in 2014 while locked up in a cell.

South Carolina's Kershaw Correctional Institution officials punished the group heavily, giving a combined sentence of over 7,000 days — almost 20 years — in solitary confinement.

Public documents revealed by Dave Maass, an investigative researcher for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, showed the inmates would each spend, on average, 1,000 days in solitary confinement for the viral video stunt.

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