Imprisoned Sex Offenders Banned From Facebook

Several Facebook accounts belonging to convicted sex offenders in a Northern England prison have finally been shut down.

An investigation from the Yorkshire Evening Post revealed that up to five prisoners housed in a Wakefield maximum security jail created Facebook accounts with in the past year a violation of prison rules. The newspaper obtained the information via the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Due to data protection issues, the prisoners' names couldn't be publically identified. Nor could the number of Facebook accounts created. But the jail did confirm that its prisoners have been violating the rules.

The prison, nicknamed Monster Mansion for its housing of sex offende…
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