INMATES PUNISHED FOR MAKING RAP VIDEO

Seven South Carolina prison inmates have been punished for a viral rap video they filmed in 2014 while locked up in a cell. The prisoners at South Carolina’s Kershaw Correctional Institution filmed a six-minute video featuring seven inmates humming and beatboxing with the chorus, “I’m on … I’m on fire, I’m on fire” inside a cell. The video was viewed more than a million times on World Star Hip Hop. The warden has now punished the group heavily, giving everyone a long stretch of solitary confinement – 1,000 days each. The inmates were punished for throwing gang signs in the video, having a cellphone to film it with and accessing social media to post the clip.
* And yet Elvis got to do Jailhouse Rock behind bars and everyone loved it.
* They were on fire but now they’re on ice.
* The only upshot to solitary confinement is now they can work on their solo careers.
* Let’s review the concept of keeping a low profile in prison.
* That’s right. Punish the prisoners for having a cell phone, not the warden or the guards.
* Actually, people listening to the video got punished too.
* Nice story. It’s kind of like a rap version of “Brother, Where Art Thou?”
* Although I doubt these guys call themselves the Soggy Bottom Boys.
* And I doubt the governor will use them to save his reelection campaign.
* But they are men of constant sorrow though especially in solitary confinement.