[deleted] t1_is4rizk wrote on October 13, 2022 at 8:41 AM

Reply to comment by mountainroses in Prison inmate accused of orchestrating $11M fraud using cell cellphone by Sorin61

There was a story about South Carolina inmates who snuck a phone into their cell and recorded a bomb-ass hip hop track. They got a total of 20 years in solitary confinement for it. There was like 7 of them, so that’s 20 divided by 7 for each, but damn that fucking sucks. It’s so wrong when people get punished for making art.

Note: it didn’t actually affect the length of their sentence but part of their sentence was spent in solitary indeed because of this. They were just rapping together all the time so the prison considered them a “gang”.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZB5L7_LvO4M

Here is an interview with one of these guys who got released after his sentence:

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/06/23/i-made-a-rap-video-in-prison

Appeltaart232 t1_is4ue8k wrote on October 13, 2022 at 9:24 AM

Solitary should not be a thing, it’s torture.

[deleted] t1_is4vevj wrote on October 13, 2022 at 9:39 AM

It definitely fits for the definition of “cruel and unusual punishment”.

Balmung60 t1_is5prv4 wrote on October 13, 2022 at 2:24 PM

It should, but the SCOTUS doesn't even try to test for "cruel" and tests "unusual" entirely by "what proportion of states permit the punishment". Which of course has the entirely intended effect of letting a wide variety of needlessly cruel punishments stand.

mmarollo t1_is7cf9y wrote on October 13, 2022 at 8:47 PM

Unless it's your grandmother during a pandemic.

PeteRose4HOF t1_is8pp1a wrote on October 14, 2022 at 2:47 AM

> It’s so wrong when people get punished for making art.

The issue isn't the art, it is the possession of a cell phone and gang activities. Cell phones have been used by inmates in the past to orchestrate escapes, harass their victims from behind bars, order hits, intimidate guards, bribe witnesses, and even possess child pornography.

Unauthorized cell phones have no place in a prison.

[deleted] t1_is8qmkm wrote on October 14, 2022 at 2:54 AM

You clearly haven’t read the article which I linked. The issue wasn’t even the phone but the fact that the prison thought they were a “gang” because they rapped together all the time.

Ok, explain to me how does illegal possession of a phone deserve a year in solitary confinement? You really consider that an appropriate punishment fit for the crime? You’re either a troll or a sociopath.

PeteRose4HOF t1_is8ryn1 wrote on October 14, 2022 at 3:05 AM

> Ok, explain to me how does illegal possession of a phone deserve a year in solitary confinement? You really consider that an appropriate punishment fit for the crime?

I think it deserves far more. Cell phones are a way to get around security and as I stated before, cell phones are dangerous for a variety of reasons. If you think cell phones DON'T deserve a serious punishment, then you are just ignorant on security.

[deleted] t1_is8u5w8 wrote on October 14, 2022 at 3:23 AM

Cringe

Imagine thinking that literal torture is appropriate response for a fucking phone.

And you still haven’t even opened the article. A shit ton of people have cell phones in prison, the cell phone itself is not the reason why they decided to go after this particular group.