California booting inmates off Facebook

Thousands of inmates in California’s state prisons have access to contraband mobile phones and are using them to update Facebook, among other things. Now, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is asking the social network to shut down Facebook accounts that have been updated since the prisoners’ incarceration.

Last year, an inmate sent drawings to the family of a 17-year old girl, though it had been for the time being seven years since the offender had been convicted and sent to prison. An investigation was launched since details of the victim, just as how she wore her hair and what brand of clothes she wore, were accurate. It was discovered he had used a cell phone to obtain current photos from the victim’s MySpace and Facebook pages in order to draw the pictures.

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