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Bill would cut off social networking sites for inmates

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MONTGOMERY - AL -

    Some popular internet sites could go offline for Alabama inmates.

    A House committee has approved a bill to ban prisoners from using social networking sites.  Many inmates are already denied access to computers, and most prison computers can't access social networking sites.  But some inmates use cell phones to access the sites.

    They're not allowed to have the phones- but their friends sometimes throw them over prison walls for the inmates.

 

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