Man punished with solitary confinement for his sister's social media page

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/08/1383458/-Man-punished-with-solitary-confinement-for-his-sister-s-social-media-page

So, that's crazy. But what is even crazier is how this is being used to execute punishment.

Last September, she posted a video of her brother on a Facebook event page to invite people to attend his upcoming court hearing. The page’s title: “PACK THE COURT! MAKE IT TREMBLE! Justice for Leon Benson.” The video is a 30-second clip that her brother took and sent to Buford through JPay, a company that allows prisoners to receive money and send emails and videos to relatives.

Shortly after the video was posted, Buford learned that the Indiana Department of Correction blocked her JPay account and that she could no longer contact her brother.

Pretty bad. But it's quite a bit worse than bad.

But, according to the complaint, an internal affairs supervisor at Pendleton told Buford that she was barred from using JPay as a punishment for posting the video on social media. Benson also was punished. He was placed in segregation, his JPay account was blocked for three months, and he lost some good-time credit, Falk said.