Prison officials won’t confirm that these photos are legit, but it certainly looks like an inmate at the Baltimore City Detention Center is posting photos to his Instagram account on a contraband cellphone that we’ve gone to the trouble of training dogs to sniff out. The pictures aren’t particularly exciting — one man or several men standing around in prison — but it’s one more embarrassment for a system embroiled in a scandal so terrible it’s almost silly.
Maybe officials can spin this. What if this isn’t a negative at all? Let’s say it’s part of an official job-training program to give inmates experience in social media branding.
The dogs can only detect smug so they’ll never find Android and Blackberry phones.