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Facebook Lands Prison Guards, Prisoners in Hot Water
Loaded on April 15, 2011
by Michael Rigby
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2011, page 42
by Mike Rigby
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Media,
Internet.
Locations:
South Carolina,
United States of America.
One downside of the information age is that both prison guards and prisoners have found themselves in trouble due to their accounts on Facebook, the Internet’s premier social networking site.
Three Nebraska prison guards were fired in March 2010 due to a Facebook post in which they ...
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