Re:Facebook Overhauls Its Inmate Account Takedown Process
by ryandrake on Friday June 05, 2015 @04:35PM
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Think of it from the point of view of the (often for-profit) prison: The less of a chance of re-integrating with society the inmate leaves with, the greater chance he'll be back, which means more $$$ for the prison.
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Re:Facebook Overhauls Its Inmate Account Takedown Process
by Thriptic on Friday June 05, 2015 @06:53PM
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I assume the primary fear, whether justified or not, is that prisoners will use the service to coordinate gang or illicit activity.
Re:Facebook Overhauls Its Inmate Account Takedown Process
by mason240 on Friday June 05, 2015 @04:39PM
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>Think of it from the point of view of the (often for-profit) prison:
Less than 5% of prisoners in the US are in privately run prisons.
Re:Facebook Overhauls Its Inmate Account Takedown Process
by AlexWest on Friday June 05, 2015 @05:02PM
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"Broken down to prison type, 19.1% of the federal prison population in the United States is housed in private prisons and 6.8% of the U.S. state prison population is housed in private prisons."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison#In_the_United_St...
Re:Facebook Overhauls Its Inmate Account Takedown Process
by 001sky on Friday June 05, 2015 @11:08PM
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Currently 1/3 of the US incarcerated population is neither in State or Federal custody.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Ad...
Re:Facebook Overhauls Its Inmate Account Takedown Process
by gertef on Monday June 08, 2015 @01:16PM
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Even publicly run prisons have contractors and unions.
Re:Facebook Overhauls Its Inmate Account Takedown Process
by clamprecht on Friday June 05, 2015 @05:04PM
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source?
Re:Facebook Overhauls Its Inmate Account Takedown Process
by leereeves on Saturday June 06, 2015 @09:13AM
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According to page 10 of http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpus12.pdf 128k out of 2.228m inmates were in private prisons in 2012.