Inmate Michael Balle, Serving Life, Has A Facebook Ppage?

[Whisper]

Michael Balle has more than 60 Facebook friends, and shares his personal info with everyone. But what he doesn't share is the fact that he's connecting to Facebook from inside prison.

BILOXI, MS (WLOX) -
A convicted felon from Ocean Springs is serving a life sentence without parole. Believe it or not, that convicted felon has a Facebook page. A concerned citizen wants to know how Michael Balle has access to the web. He contacted Action Reporter AJ Giardina who investigated those claims.

Michael Balle has more than 60 Facebook friends, and shares his personal info with everyone. He went to Ocean Springs High School. He's from Seattle, Washington and was born on March 8th, 1977.

But what he doesn't share is the fact that he's connecting to Facebook from inside prison.

Balle's online profile with the Mississippi Department of Corrections was taken in 2002 when he entered prison. Balle's older now, but the personal info matches right down to the birth date.

An anonymous source at the Department of Corrections looked at the Facebook page and confirmed the photo is the same man incarcerated.

Twelve years ago, Balle was arrested on a capital murder charge for the death of 25-year-old Rachel Bellman. She was stabbed 19 times with a beer bottle and strangled with a belt. Her body was discovered days later rolled up inside a carpet behind a vacant house on Firestone Road.

Balle and another man were convicted of the murder and sentenced to life behind bars. But some how, from inside the walls of Wilkinson County Correctional Facility in Woodville, Balle launched a Facebook page, and is connecting to some people who may have no clue he's a convicted killer.

Checking Balle's Facebook wall, he posts a few times a month. On June 7, he responded to a friend at 5:55 p.m. On May 7, he was on his Facebook page at 12:16 a.m., And on March 8 at 4:05 in the afternoon.

I contacted public information officer Angela Smith at the Correctional Facility to find out if prison officials were aware of Balle's online activities. I told Angela that we had learned that one of the inmates, Michael Balle, has a Facebook page.
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Smith was not aware of Balle's page, so I sent her the link.

Five hours later, she sent me this email which stated, "We appreciate your sharing this information with us. CCA's top priority is the safety and security of our facilities, employees and the inmates entrusted to our care. While we cannot speak to the specifics of an issue that may be under investigation, we take all allegations seriously and act swiftly to investigate them."

A person with the Department of Corrections who wants to remain anonymous told me Balle's cell phone was confiscated at 7:30 Tuesday night

http://www.wlox.com/story/18783298/i...age?hpt=ju_bn4

[HeatherHabilatory]

Oooooh heads are gonna roll.

[Krystal]

Alright, I have a Facebook page and my "friends" are family and people that I have know for at least 20 years if not longer, how do you get a "friend" on Facebook that is a murderer in prison? I thought you were supposed to know who the person is before you friend them because of the possibility of the pages containing viruses, not to mention they could be pedophiles, rapists, and convicted murderers. Is it "normal" for people to just randomly friend strangers?

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Alright, I have a Facebook page and my "friends" are family and people that I have know for at least 20 years if not longer, how do you get a "friend" on Facebook that is a murderer in prison? I thought you were supposed to know who the person is before you friend them because of the possibility of the pages containing viruses, not to mention they could be pedophiles, rapists, and convicted murderers. Is it "normal" for people to just randomly friend strangers?

Many people "friend" unknown others because of the games they play on Facebook. Many people "friend" unknown others because they like getting to know new people. Many people are "famous" and "friend" unknown others because that's how a social network works.

I highly doubt you can get a virus from someone's page. You can get a virus from some nasty app or link on Facebook. Knowing the person that is supposedly sending you a game notice/request or link isn't going to prevent a virus if that friend is an idiot and did something to infect themselves (and thus, you).

As "Dakota Valkyrie", I have many friends on Facebook that I've never met in person. I don't see any difference in friending someone I consistently interact with (but never met) and friending some person I knew years ago in high school and have rarely seen since. Either could turn out to be a creepazoid.

Since I don't play games, am not famous, and only want to get to know "special people" (like D'D members), I've never had a friend request from someone I didn't "know". And I've only de-friended one person who couldn't play nice on my page.

[malq]

I have been in prison for nine years and I post here and and on facebook daily. I order my pharma marijuana on line, since i can't go get it and then I stick the state with the tab. I have netflix and a down comforter. My laptop has wifi from my cell with the fastest broadband money can buy.
I think I will order an escort tonite. Saturdays we get conjugals. I am tired of screwing the female guards. I need some strange.
Yaaawn..

[Rockin Ma]

Inmates get a hold of cell phones all the time.

[VXIII]

Freinds and family post for them, thats why his posts are only about once or twice a month. The bigger question is how they hold those cell phones up their butts for so long... DO you have a cell phone Malq? Maybe you can answer that question.

[Boudicca]

Freinds and family post for them, thats why his posts are only about once or twice a month. The bigger question is how they hold those cell phones up their butts for so long... DO you have a cell phone Malq? Maybe you can answer that question.

It's not that difficult and sphincters close.

[CbabyRKO]

It's not that difficult and sphincters close.

Well since you're such an expert on the subject how do tell how one goes about inserting a mobile up their bums.

[Boudicca]

Vaseline most likely. Work as a Corrections Officer, you see interesting things come from interesting places.

Edited to add: Work in an ER for a little bit and you can see the cool X-Rays of things people put up their bums.

[HeatherHabilatory]

Alright, I have a Facebook page and my "friends" are family and people that I have know for at least 20 years if not longer, how do you get a "friend" on Facebook that is a murderer in prison? I thought you were supposed to know who the person is before you friend them because of the possibility of the pages containing viruses, not to mention they could be pedophiles, rapists, and convicted murderers. Is it "normal" for people to just randomly friend strangers?

I friend a lot of people I don't know, but that I am mutual friends with and have had a fair amount of interaction with on fb.

And like DV, I have a dummy account, too, with which I friend people from here or other places in the vast reaches of the internet that I've interacted with. Also the mutual friend thing comes into play there, too.

I've deleted a LOT MORE than one person who did not want to play nicely, and no lie, it's all been on my actual account, actual people I know. I swear, people in my town act like being a bitch on facebook and starting drama on and off it is like a paying job.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

And like DV, I have a dummy account, too, with which I friend people from here or other places in the vast reaches of the internet that I've interacted with. Also the mutual friend thing comes into play there, too.

You mean your last name isn't really "Habilatory"? No wonder that $42,000 check I sent you got returned.

[HeatherHabilatory]

You mean your last name isn't really "Habilatory"? No wonder that $42,000 check I sent you got returned.

Man, like TWO people other than me know what habilatory means.

And firefox is NOT one of them!

[princessgrandma]

Wow.... I am as close to speechless as is possible for me.

How does a convicted MURDERER, who is in prison for life without parole, have access to the internet? And a cell phone? I know that the guards on Death Row go through for inspection periodically, having a good old time trashing the cells and throwing personal items around. I read that they find cell phones, drugs and other contraband. The Death Row inmates, like in Texas, get put on lockdown for a month or more after the stuff is found. Even the inmates who don't have anything get lockdown, which pisses them off and the culprits better watch their backs indefinitely after that.

Mark Stroman, who has since been executed in Texas, was one that got caught with a cell phone. He had a blog on the internet, which is still there but there's been no activity on it since the last entry, which was dated (and actually written in the early morning) the day of his execution. He was allowed a typewriter and wrote the entries for the blog and one of his female groupies would publish it on the internet. This is a Death Row inmate now. I've also seen that there is a sex offender, whose victim was a child, has a blog online. He sends entries to his mother and she publishes the blog every so often. He is anonymous b/c every time he gets moved to another facility, he tries to not let his fellow inmates know what he's in for as long as he can. Sex offenders, especially child sex offenders, are despised in prison and get physically attacked by other inmates quite often.

Sorry to go on about these people but it pisses me off that they are allowed to speak out online, even if it is indirectly. They are supposed to be being punished. It should not be so easy for them to have access to thousands of people, if not more, on the internet. Just my opinion, please note. I know I've rambled around here but I do have strong feelings and it makes me angry that a murderer would have internet access and a cell phone. The way the article is written, it kind of sounds like he was actually allowed to have the phone.

Prison is punishment, not a vacation. It should be difficult for them to have access outside the prison all together.

[AngelFire]

I have been in prison for nine years and I post here and and on facebook daily. I order my pharma marijuana on line, since i can't go get it and then I stick the state with the tab. I have netflix and a down comforter. My laptop has wifi from my cell with the fastest broadband money can buy.
I think I will order an escort tonite. Saturdays we get conjugals. I am tired of screwing the female guards. I need some strange.
Yaaawn..

Ah big deal so he is a convict. I have @malq as a friend on FB. Now that is some poor judgement on my behalf, right there.

(sarcasm people, sarcasm)

[Krystal]

Manson has been caught with cell phones twice. They say it's easy to get contraband in jail.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Man, like TWO people other than me know what habilatory means.

I confess. I had to look it up the first time I saw your name. Still can't figure out how to use it in a sentence.

[Obsolete]

He was using the cell phone to access FB, his friends and family weren't doing it for him. Like someone else said, inmates get cells all the time, along with porn, drugs, and McDonalds (haven't you bitches ever watched The Longest Yard?).

Alright, I have a Facebook page and my "friends" are family and people that I have know for at least 20 years if not longer, how do you get a "friend" on Facebook that is a murderer in prison? I thought you were supposed to know who the person is before you friend them because of the possibility of the pages containing viruses, not to mention they could be pedophiles, rapists, and convicted murderers. Is it "normal" for people to just randomly friend strangers?

Aside from some of the DD members, I know everyone on my FB page. However, many of those people I haven't seen since high school and they very well could be posting from prison. Who's to say he didn't know the people he was talking to? On the otherhand, there are a shit ton of people who add anyone and everyone they can like it's a fucking contest and their trying to win a one way ticket into Katy Perry's vagina.

[HeatherHabilatory]

I confess. I had to look it up the first time I saw your name. Still can't figure out how to use it in a sentence.

I've only said the word out loud one time. And that's because a close friend asked wtf my new myspace name was.

[Whisper]

I have been in prison for nine years and I post here and and on facebook daily. I order my pharma marijuana on line, since i can't go get it and then I stick the state with the tab. I have netflix and a down comforter. My laptop has wifi from my cell with the fastest broadband money can buy.
I think I will order an escort tonite. Saturdays we get conjugals. I am tired of screwing the female guards. I need some strange.
Yaaawn..

Yeah but your in cop prison where they have golf and get you hookers on the weekend that doesnt count
You have to have internet to keep track of your dealers and bookies that work for you

[Boudicca]

Wow.... I am as close to speechless as is possible for me.

How does a convicted MURDERER, who is in prison for life without parole, have access to the internet? And a cell phone? I know that the guards on Death Row go through for inspection periodically, having a good old time trashing the cells and throwing personal items around. I read that they find cell phones, drugs and other contraband. The Death Row inmates, like in Texas, get put on lockdown for a month or more after the stuff is found. Even the inmates who don't have anything get lockdown, which pisses them off and the culprits better watch their backs indefinitely after that.

Mark Stroman, who has since been executed in Texas, was one that got caught with a cell phone. He had a blog on the internet, which is still there but there's been no activity on it since the last entry, which was dated (and actually written in the early morning) the day of his execution. He was allowed a typewriter and wrote the entries for the blog and one of his female groupies would publish it on the internet. This is a Death Row inmate now. I've also seen that there is a sex offender, whose victim was a child, has a blog online. He sends entries to his mother and she publishes the blog every so often. He is anonymous b/c every time he gets moved to another facility, he tries to not let his fellow inmates know what he's in for as long as he can. Sex offenders, especially child sex offenders, are despised in prison and get physically attacked by other inmates quite often.

Sorry to go on about these people but it pisses me off that they are allowed to speak out online, even if it is indirectly. They are supposed to be being punished. It should not be so easy for them to have access to thousands of people, if not more, on the internet. Just my opinion, please note. I know I've rambled around here but I do have strong feelings and it makes me angry that a murderer would have internet access and a cell phone. The way the article is written, it kind of sounds like he was actually allowed to have the phone.

Prison is punishment, not a vacation. It should be difficult for them to have access outside the prison all together.

Unfortunately you cannot control what their friends, families and lawyers do without court orders and that's far to expensive to do for each inmate. As far as getting things in, especially cell phones - 1: visitors, 2: corrupt CO's (who should die by being pulled apart with red-hot pincers) 3: their lawyers 4: Work release inmates

Here they are allowed typewriters and I don't really see a problem with that. Outgoing mail is supposed to be read. That said, they can easily disguise a blog post as a letter to Mommy... and honestly with limited resources I'd much rather the mail readers pick on the inmates ordering hits, gang activity, witness intimidation and other crimes.

Inmates are not "allowed" internet access. They gain it through illegal means.

They have 24 hours a day 7 days a week for x amount of years to get things over on us. Combine that with knowledge they learn from the ones that have been down for awhile and the fact that there is not enough time or resources to effectively search every cell every day, they're going to get things by. Those wonderful tools to detect cell phones cost a lot of money, and a lot of states are having a very hard time coming up with money for paychecks and insurance, let alone fringe benefit "toys."

Sex offenders do occasionally have "accidents in the shower." There's generally an underlying reason aside from them being an SO that gets them beat down in big boy prison.

If you come across a blog or facebook profile or whatever, instead of complaining that it exists in the first place, pick up the phone or write an e-mail (or snail mail letter) to whatever state's department of corrections and inform them of it so people can better do their job and cut down on some of it. There are several avenues that can be taken if they know the problem even exists.

[malq]

Vaseline most likely.

That's how I get my Ipad out to the yard and back to my cell.

[Boudicca]

That's how I get my Ipad out to the yard and back to my cell.

That'll stretch ya out.

[Whisper]

Hey I did a story on here not to long ago and it was that guy that snuck a HUGE gun in and tried to tell the guards he found it in the toilet
Driven past jail here million times but thankfully can hgonestly say Ive never been in one
I wouldnt last Im a candy ass I need air conditioning,coca cola (the real stuff not that no name crap)
Winto Green Lifesavers,Extra Butter Orville Redenbachers lol Id die I know I would Im so OCD with cleaning and crap I just wouldnt survive

[Boudicca]

Hey I did a story on here not to long ago and it was that guy that snuck a HUGE gun in and tried to tell the guards he found it in the toilet
Driven past jail here million times but thankfully can hgonestly say Ive never been in one
I wouldnt last Im a candy ass I need air conditioning,coca cola (the real stuff not that no name crap)
Winto Green Lifesavers,Extra Butter Orville Redenbachers lol Id die I know I would Im so OCD with cleaning and crap I just wouldnt survive

That story wouldn't happen to be from Missouri would it? Awhile back (before my time) a Captain (of all people) snuck in a shotgun piece by piece. She was busted when she brought in the last piece to make it operational. I don't know what happened to her, all I can hope is she was dragged naked behind a truck through a cactus field.

[Whisper]

That story wouldn't happen to be from Missouri would it? Awhile back (before my time) a Captain (of all people) snuck in a shotgun piece by piece. She was busted when she brought in the last piece to make it operational. I don't know what happened to her, all I can hope is she was dragged naked behind a truck through a cactus field.

lol
No this was few months ago I cant remember name Ill have to look later
but it wasnt a small gun

[VXIII]

I confess. I had to look it up the first time I saw your name. Still can't figure out how to use it in a sentence.

I admit I looked it up too, I thought it meant the act of living in a home, nothing to do with clothing.

[VXIII]

That's how I get my Ipad out to the yard and back to my cell.

I knew it, from the way you are sitting on the couch there I could tell you had something pretty large up your butt.