Pirate Prison
In 2009, Richard Humphrey pleaded guilty to pirating movies, a federal crime; he was sentenced to 29 months in prison. In 2010, he pleaded guilty to an unrelated state charge, and landed in a Grafton, Ohio, prison on a parole violation. There, the guards showed him and other inmates movies — pirated movies, Humphrey says. Some even seemed to have been recorded in movie theaters. “You could see people walking in front of the camera,” Humphrey said. A spokeswoman for the warden said the matter was being investigated, but Humphrey has doubts. “How do you expect someone to be rehabilitated when there’s authority figures that are running those institutions that are copyright infringing?” (AC/Cleveland Plain Dealer) ...Rehabilitated? In prison? What movies has he been watching?Original Publication Date: 25 May 2014
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
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