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Prisoners can only communicate with the outside world through monitored communications to protect the victims of their crimes as well as prevent prisoners from ordering criminal activity from behind bars. When you are a prisoner, you lose the right to private communications. It's prison, not summer camp. What 'right' does a prisoner have to Facebook? None. You might want to learn about why policies are the way they are before blindly complaining about 'injustice.' There have been numerous cases where witness retaliations have been arranged from prison; victim harassment is also common. That's why communications are monitored. Besides, why do we care? Facebook isn't some kind of human right. It's a superfluous luxury. If prisoners want to communicate, they have access to pen and paper. They have access to phone calls. This is far cry from fully-isolated solitary confinement with no communications at all. We're complaining about FACEBOOK for god's sake. What next, complaining that prisoners don't have access to Freshdirect or Uber?

What mirderers haven't been charged that you're referring too? Ferguson was a clear case of self defense; you attack a cop, you will get put down. How is that even controversial? Don't attack cops. Common sense. In Baltimore, those cops were charged. As far as murder, do you know what the legal definition of murder is? How about manslaughter? How about intent? You're obviously not a lawyer. I'm interested in if you are outraged that Dorian Johnson hasn't yet been charged for obstruction of justice for lying to the police about brown being shot in the back? How about his claim that Brown was running away? If you want justice, then Dorian needs to be charged. But I don't think you care about actual justice. You just like jumping on the anti-cop, everyone is racists bandwagon. Facts apparently aren't as important as smashing windows and starting riots over imagined injustices. The Baltimore guy had been arrested dozens of times. Why do we care about him and not the 28 people shot in Chicago almost every weekend? Do you even know the name of a single shooting victim from last weekend in Chicago? Where's their justice? Perhaps you should care about justice for the victims of crime rather than the perpetrators of it. But ok, let's worry about Facebook for prisoners; that's totally important.



I think it is uncontroversial that you may not be allowed to use Facebook from within a prison, I have no problem with that. What is not okay in my opinion is that they suspend your account. They could as well sell your house and your car, terminate your gym membership, bank account, phone contact and employment agreement because you are obviously not supposed to make use of any of that while in prison. And I see this mostly as wrong behavior by the state and would blame Facebook only insofar as they just blindly follow such in my opinion unlawful orders. Admittedly I am not from the US and this may well be covered by laws I am not aware of.


Imagined injustices? Yeah, no.

Here's a copy of the Derpartment of Justice's rather frank report into Ferguson Police Dept: http://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/documentcloud/index.html...

A few of the chapter headings:

  III. Ferguson Law Enforcement Efforts Are Focused On Generating Revenue... 9
  IV.A.1: FPD Engages in a Pattern of Unconstitutional Stops and Arrests in Violation of the Fourth Ammendment... 16
  IV.A.2: FPD Engages in a Pattern of First Ammendment Violations... 24
  IV.A.3: FPD Engages in a Pattern of Excessive Force in Violation of the Fourth Ammendment... 28
  IV.C.2: Ferguson Law Enforcement Practices Are Motivated In Part By Discriminatory Intent in Violation of The Fourteeth Ammendment and Other Federal Laws... 70
  IV.D.1: Ferguson's Unlawful Police and Court Practices Have Led to Distrust and Resentment Among Many in Ferguson... 79
There's more, if you can swallow enough pride to click on the link.




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