Title: Internet in prisons - Wikipedia
Headings: Internet in prisons
Internet in prisons
Contents
Internet access in prisons globally
Australia
Belgium
Canada
Germany
Malaysia
Norway
Philippines
Romania
Ukraine
United States
Rehabilitating purposes
Controversy surrounding inmate access to Internet
References

Content: The prison allocated the usage of computer and internet by the inmates from 8 am to 5pm daily. The prison management authority will also monitor and access the usage of the internet whereby it is strictly only for the learning purposes in getting references from the OUM digital library which has 700,000 references online. Their study time is limited and they must fully utilize it for learning. Norway
Closed prisons (high security prisons) do not allow the use of mobiles. All of these prisons have a limited access to Internet and prisoners do not have access to pages where they can communicate with others. Besides, all activities can be tracked. Philippines
In the Philippines, prisoners are allowed to access the Internet while closely supervised. Romania
In Romania, a survey was conducted in 2008 to assess the situation on availability of IT services to inmates in prisons. A response was received from 14 out of the 36 prisons in the country. Of the 14, 7 prisons had no computer access to inmates, 5 prisons had computers from different donations, 1 prison stated they had 5 computers with internet access but are for staff use only.