Blogging from prison

The Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark - a regular visitor to Malta - stated that blogging from prison has 'raised a new set of issues'.

A prisoner's ability to post letters on a website has raised a new set of issues, Prime Minister Helen Clark said today. Political activist Tim Selwyn is using a current affairs website to describe life behind bars in Mt Eden Prison, and the Corrections Department says he has not acted illegally.

Selwyn was jailed for two months on a sedition charge following his involvement in an axe attack on Miss Clark's electorate office. He has published accounts of violence in the prison yard, criticised the judge who sentenced him and argued that the foreshore and seabed legislation is illegal on www.tumeke.blogspot.com

Miss Clark said his actions raised questions. "It used to be that when you were put away, you were put away from society," she said on NewstalkZB. "With the Internet, you send your letters off electronically and then someone else can very easily put them on a blog. It raises a whole new set of issues."...

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