The Texas
Department of Criminal Justice monitors letters and visits by prisoners with
their
family or friends and since they don’t have internet access while
incarcerated, this is their only form
of communication. So prisoners have
active social media accounts that their family and friends post
for them on to
ask for help, advice, or just vent about their life on which often helps them
with their
adjustment back into society after being released from prison. But
the TDCJ wants to prohibit this
from happening anymore.
Not only
does this violate the prisoners First Amendment rights, but also the First
Amendment
rights of those running the accounts for the prisoners. The TDCJ claims that inmates
through social media “sell items over the internet based on the notoriety of
their crime, harass victims
or victim’s families, and continue their criminal
activity.” They have even made it so that the
prisoners can be punished for the
activities of the third parties and can take away any contact with
outside people
meaning they couldn’t have the social media account through them anymore
anyways.
Many people are starting to speak out against this because the
government is overreaching it’s power
and this is unconstitutional.
To read more visit: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wallis-nader/texas-wants-to-prevent-in_b_9742846.html
I agree with this completely. If their family feels the need to use their social media they should be more than able to.
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