Saturday 24 September 2022 02:59 AM NSW prisoners becoming TikTok celebrities using illegal phones in their cells trends now
Australian prisoners are becoming social media celebrities by using smuggled phones to gain internet notoriety from behind bars.
The discovery prisoners are using social media within Australia's prisons to share slices of their lives in jail with a young online audience online has sparked an investigation by Corrective Services NSW.
Inmates aren't allowed to have nor use mobile phones in corrective centres across Australia, but that hasn't stopped cons from posting to social media platforms such as TikTok.
Videos glorifying violence, crime and the prison life have been finding their way onto media feeds, alongside other seemingly innocuous rap and dance videos.
Prisoners can face extensions to their sentences up to two years if caught trying to take or smuggle phones into prison.
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Drill rapper 'Snoee Badman' used a smuggled prison phone and social media to grow an audience for his rapping while behind bars
Former wakeboarder Kyle Richardson had been using a contraband mobile phone to share TikTok dances with the outside world after he was imprisoned following a car accident that seriously injured his then 18-year-old girlfriend in 2020
Inmate Kyle Richardson, who has dubbed himself the 'prince of Parklea', amassed thousands of followers on TikTok by posting videos of himself dancing in his prison greens, reported the Daily Telegraph.
Kyle Richardson didn't try to hide his identity nor surroundings in his viral videos, with his cell, uniform, tattoos and face all clearly visible.
The inmate racked up some 11,000 followers in a short space of time with his videos shown across hundreds of thousands of phone screens.
He has also been
