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| Prisons battle wave of social media posts, cell phone use by inmates |
| By greenvilleonline.com- Tim Smith |
| Published: 05/16/2016 |
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COLUMBIA — So far this year, 66 state inmates have been disciplined for creating or assisting on social media sites, despite a ban on cell phones inside prisons and a lack of inmate access to computers. Those numbers are on track to slightly surpass last year’s numbers of 131 disciplinary actions but are down from a peak of 218 in 2014, according to postings by the state Department of Corrections. Prison officials consider such access a serious issue because inmates can engage in criminal activity and because they use smuggled cell phones to post to the web. Read More. |
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