Should inmates have Myspace?
Family and friends of 36 out of the 490 death row inmates in Texas have been maintaining Myspace accounts in order to send messages out to the world about their life and reflect or refute their conviction.
However, these accounts may soon be removed if Andy Kahan, director of the crime and victims office for Houston Mayor Bill White has his way. He has already written a message to the website asking for the accounts to be taken down.
The director draws parallels with the site considering taking down the accounts of registered sex offenders as well. Though there are obvious moral issues involved with this case but I don't think that taking these accounts down will really help anything. For one, family and friends can always switch to another social networking site or just make the identity of the prisoner less obvious. This problem will always be around as long as inmates have the ability to communicate with the outside world and I highly doubt this right will be taken away so until then, it will be a long fought, probably unsuccessful battle for Mr. Kahan.
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