US prison system proposes total social media ban for inmates, sparking First Amendment concerns

[The Guru]

Probably let them use truth social exclusively.

 

[Fiji Water]

So to sum up...
You quoted a post of mine criticizing the way things are.
by stating essentially welp thats how things are.
and now you're trying to say i would be fool to not be aware how things are.

What exactly do you want to talk about?
Actually nevermind, negged

Inmates like you shouldn't be able to post. I support the motion in the OP.

 

[BaggerofTea]

Be surprised when you people like wild animals the begin to take on that persona

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

Also I find it VERY interesting that former felons cannot vote and prisoners can't vote either.

What do they think will happen if they vote?

 

[maxamusa]

They don't want the world 2 see what a lot of American prisons are really like

 

[maxamusa]

Most the people I know posting on the gram from downstate not doing it with permission

I don't think they're referring to hot phones and IG specifically.....

 

[Renegade47]

prison needs to be reformed but thats not gonna happen.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

i'm pretty sure you don't have first amendment rights in jail. losing access to instagram would seem like one of the consequences for robbing or killing

We're just gonna assume that the system is working perfectly and only guilty people are being punished.

To lock a mf up in the first place is the ultimate taking of rights. Freedom. The principle that America is based on. Your very ability to go where you want is taken away.

Any other rights that are lost are a small percent loss on top being put into a cage.

If you can legally put person in a cage, you can do anything short of physically harming them. And even then, plenty of inmates get physically abused and even killed. By the guards and by the other inmates (you'd imagine that the system would protect the inmates from being beaten, raped, or killed by other inmates).

In summary, stopping inmates from communicating is only slightly worse than the basic concept of prison. If we allow prison itself, then this detail is miniscule.

But. We know that the system is not perfect and plenty of people who don't deserve physical and mental abuse get subjected to it.

 

[boogers]

Umm I work in prison, how tf they on social media? Cellphones prohibited and their tablets don't have access.

I actually think prisons just don't want them to possibly show the world what they actually live thru.

you should make a thread and tell us some stories. i love reading shyt like that