By Bethany Wales
WSFA
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — It’s the world’s most popular way to connect and keep in touch, but for inmates in Alabama – Facebook is supposed to be off limits. WSFA 12 News had evidence that prisoners are accessing and posting to the social networking site from behind bars, with unsettling details.
“It’s a never-ending task, we fight it every day, just like officers on the street fight drunk driving every day, we fight cell phones in prison every day,” says Brian Corbett, Public Information Officer at the Department of Corrections.
For now, at least one prisoner appears to be winning that fight, and breaking other rules. We found pictures and posts on Facebook, on the account registered to Jay Ysc Dacrew Thomas.
The pictures show men dressed in what appears to be prison garb, standing in what looks like a prison cell, posting to the internet from a mobile device. One post even includes a phone number to contact the prisoner, though he refused to tell those on his profile at which prison he was being housed.
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