Facebook posts attracts more jail days

Facebook posts and likes are fun for some but very grue some in countries where social media is under strict hawk eye monitoring and vigilance by local security wings in Europe and US.

Evelin prisons Facebook and Twitter ,Tubler etc are monitored and prisoners can get their term extended or solitary terms for violating the regulations .In South Carolina's prison one man, Tyheem Henry was sentenced to over 37 years in solitary confinement for writing 38 Facebook posts.

In addition to almost four decades of solitary confinement, Henry lost 74 years of canteen, phone, and visiting privileges. His case is extreme, but he's not the only one: The Electronic Frontier Foundation discovered over 400 cases over the past three years where inmates were disciplined for social networking as Level 1 violations which are the same as rioting, homicide, hostage-taking, and a host of much more violent and serious transgressions. More

than 40 prisoners got over two years in the hole. What the hell? The sentences are so long because SCDC issues a separate Level 1 violation for each day that an inmate accesses a social network. An inmate who posts five status updates over five days, would receive five separate Level 1 violations, while an inmate who posted 100 updates in one day would receive only one.