12Sep 2015
Sep 12, 2015

Criminals with access to Facebook in Georgia’s toughest prisons

Despite the fact that it is serious, it is unbelievable to many people.

Shawn Mosley, also known as “Juice”, has spent most of his adult life behind bars. Currently he is serving a 15-year sentence for possession of drugs with intent to distribute and aggravated assault. Unlike what most people think prison life would be, “Juice” is constantly keeping in touch with close family members and friends while in prison through his Facebook page. He has been a prolific Facebook user since 2010, and even has the luxury of posting updates during prison emergencies.

Though “Juice” has spent most of his time in prison, he has undergone a graphic transformation as seen in his photos on the Facebook page he has been maintaining for a number of years now.

What is more shocking is that when being booked into the prison he looked normal enough in his photos, but currently he has tattooed almost his entire body while in prison, his chest, shoulders and arms are all inked.

When Vic Reynolds, Cobb’s County District Attorney was shown the Juice’s Facebook page, and asked what he thought, he was shocked about the fact that a prisoner had a Facebook page while in a state prison system. Furthermore, being inside the prison system and showing of money and tattoos.
When speaking to Vic Reynolds the district attorney for Cobb County, where Mosley is convicted, he said that those are serious accusations to both the entire prison system and the way the system is being run on a daily basis.

During a meeting of the Board of Corrections in early September, Assistant Commissioner “Buster” Evans on the educational programs for prisoners. He said that the primary objective of the educational programs is to make a difference on the lives of the prisoners.

Though tattoos have always been a way of life for inmates in prison, they have not always been that sophisticated. Especially when you consider that the tattoos displayed by “Juice” on his Facebook page seem to have been done by a professional tattoo gun.

Speaking about the allegations, Reynolds said that having a Facebook account and displaying of tattoos in prison sends a wrong message and it is the responsibility of the prison system to run it in a more responsible way. He added that it is very confusing, because ordinarily those running the prison system should be aware of such thing that are happening in the prison and do something about it.

Homer Bryson the current commissioner of the Georgia Department of Corrections. He was appointed in February by the Gov. Nathan Deal; he has only served for a few months.

Bryson dismissed the allegations and defended the prison system saying that the prison system is going in the right direction of what they are doing, in terms of how they manage inmates.

Though Commissioner Bryson avoided talking to us in person, he did allow us to talk to his top investigator, Ricky Myrick.
While speaking to Myrick, he told us that they have tried to deal with that situation on a number of occasions but the way Facebook looks at the violations of their conduct policy, being an inmate does not fit the bill; therefore Facebook is not extremely cooperative on pulling down the pages.

Though not everything posted by Georgia inmates on Facebook is harmless, Myrick already knows there’s a serious problem with inmates having phones and Facebook accounts.

Facebook allows inmates to communicate with gang members and issue orders to threaten and harass victims that they currently are dealing with and to intimidate witnesses, it also helps inmates to evade security check and defeat security measures, said Myrick.

The situation seems to be normal and lawful to the inmates; on his Facebook page Travis Morgan is bold enough to use his real name. In August, he accessed the Department of Corrections own website, searched and re-posted photos of Kevin Lattrell Holloway, a convicted sex offender.
His post read, “Warning Facebook….” “This aggravated child molester goes by the name of Bankhead…and is now located at Calhoun State Prison.”
He further wrote, “The call has been made…” ‘So remember his face!”

Mosley was only 16-years-old when he was convicted. Now at 27, the prison system has changed him and not for the better. On one occasion, Mosley posted old photos of his late father on his Facebook page and wrote: “I wonder if my pops still been alive, would I have been so ruthless?”

Gang tattoos, drugs and Facebook are not what most people expect to be the norm in any prison. We are still hoping to campaign and talk about the serious issues in Georgia prisons with the new commissioner of corrections and change the prison system for the better.

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