Prisoners in the UK
may be getting text-only email as part of a new plan concocted in the UK's criminal justice system. The prisoners will not be able to send messages to more than their approved list of contacts, and cannot send pictures or attachments of any kind, nor receive them. Text-only messages will be allowed. The system has not been put into place, and won't be until certain safeguards are put in place to stop abuse of the system. The idea may work out, but I wondered if the inmates would end up getting spam or not. Hypothetically, being sure inmates get the kind of SPAM problems most of us get would frustrate them to no end as it does for those of us on the outside I imagine. I guess SPAM isn't a good way to help the convicted pay their debt to society, but at least it would level the playing field at least in email-land and teach those inside what to expect once they get out. SPAM, a new form of corporal punishment? You decide.
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