By Don Logana
WFSB
CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. — Inmates wanting to friend you on Facebook? After we posted about this story on Facebook today, many of our Facebook followers posted about profiles from prison too.
WTOC spoke to a retired corrections officer who has been spending a lot of time on Facebook lately, weeding out inmates online.
He’s made it his mission to find and report inmates on Facebook. Some of them are so brazen, they are posing with weapons from behind bars.
He called it a clear and present danger, not only to other inmates, but prison staff, too. He said Facebook was a right they lost when they were convicted of their crimes.
“They are in grave danger, and there is no other way to say it but grave danger,” Joe told WTOC.
Joe retired as a corrections officer in Georgia and Pennsylvania five years ago. After 16 years on the job, with time including military time and inside state prisons, he’d seen it all. Or, so he thought.
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