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Letter: Beware of posts from behind bars

By Lucas Mariscal, Vancouver
Published: December 21, 2015, 6:00am

Lately I have been using various apps like Facebook, kik messenger, Twitter, and Stream, which is a live stream app. I’ve noticed that there are inmates from different prisons posting on there or actually streaming live from their cells. What’s the deal with that? Why isn’t anyone doing a better job to prevent something like that from happening?

That’s a very scary thing to know that people who are incarcerated now have the means to contact you whenever they feel like it. Worst part about it, one guy whose page I happened to take a screen shot of, said that he was there for murder, and he also had a Gofundme page, so basically he was asking people for donations.

We look at police corruption all the time, so when does someone look at prison corruption? I’ve been in prison before and I can tell you firsthand that there’s corruption. Now, I’m an upstanding citizen who has completely turned his life around and I’m appalled by what’s happening. These guys are probably running hits from in there and none are the wiser. Someone has to do something about this; it’s disgusting and upsetting to say the least.

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