

In addition to the prison term, he was sentenced to 10 years supervised release, which will begin when he gets out of custody. Today, inmates only have regular TV,” he told VG.OAKLAND - A California man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for managing a private online chat where users distributed child pornography and new members were required to send him illicit videos involving minors, the Department of Justice announced.Ībel Garcia-DeLeon was arrested last year in Louisiana and extradited to California, where in June he pled guilty to facilitating the distribution of child sex abuse materials. “We have gone through the TV system with these security concerns in mind and built it up again. Strømnes says he cannot guarantee that the TV system will not be hacked again.

The level of comfort at Halden has attracted international attention with a documentary, The Norden, featuring an American correctional officer's reaction to Halden prison. Ti me Magazine has hailed it as the “the most humane” prison in the world. Inmates enjoy flat-screen TVs, an en-suite bathroom with ceramic tiles, and a mini-fridge in their cells. The prison is focused on rehabilitation, rather that punishment and was built to resemble life outside of the prison walls as much as possible. Halden prison is a high security prison which opened its doors in 2010. In addition, we found a handwritten note with a log-in on an inmate during a search.”Īfter the hack, inmates could use their TV sets to chat to each other and share files without the prison guard's knowledge. “We reacted when we noticed unusually high data traffic and that inmates were having more than the normal trouble with their TVs. Jan Strømnes, from Halden prison told Norway's VG newspaper that the prison authorities had become suspicious after they saw a spike in data traffic on the system. The inmate who hacked the system has now been transferred to another prison and officials at Halden are considering reporting the incident to the police.
