Jailhouse Friends and Family Web Thousands of inmates use the internet indirectly through their telephone and mail privileges and a network of family, friends or activists, even though officially the net is off limits. PITTSBURGH -- Keith Maydak's jail cells are roomier than most. Must be all that cyberspace. State and federal prisons don't let inmates use internet computers behind bars -- and the Allegheny County Jail doesn't either. Yet Maydak has answered a reporter's e-mails from the Pittsburgh jail, and later an Ohio lockup, while he awaits sentencing for violating probation on a 900-number phone scam that cost AT&T $550,000 dollars. ...
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