What do you all think about the Hulk Hogan, prison talk vs privacy issue?

[The Backlash Cometh]

Not sure what his son is in prison for, but from what I can gather from the news there was a phone conversation between Hulk Hogan and the boy and the call was intercepted. Hogan made some not-so-nice comments about the boy/young man who was the alleged victim in the incident and those comments were broadcasted publicly. Hogan claims that prison calls should be private, and even if the authorities are all allowed to listen in on the conversations, that the information should never have gone public.

So, what is eveyone's thoughts about the privacy of prison phone conversations?

[ccharles000]

1. I don't really have an opinion on the Hulk Hogan thing...

other than private conversations should remain private and not released to the media.

Here is what happened.

Supra crash
Bollea was involved in a serious accident in Clearwater, Florida, on the evening of August 26, 2007. Bollea and three members of the pit crew for his drifting team,<4> using two of his father's cars — a yellow Toyota Supra<13> and a silver Dodge Viper — were racing when the single-vehicle crash occurred at Court St. and Missouri Ave., near downtown Clearwater. The yellow Supra, which Bollea had been driving in the outside lane,<14> fishtailed and spun across the road, crashing into the median strip and into a palm tree. The impact of the collision "destroyed the entire car".<9> The posted speed limit on that stretch of road was 40 mph, but a reconstruction of the crash by police shows that the Supra was traveling "in excess of 60 mph".<14> Danny Jacobs — the pit crew member driving the silver Viper — told police that the speed of the two cars was "not more than 70".<14> Barry Lawrence, his passenger, said that the Supra was traveling “at or near 100 miles per hour” when it crashed."<15>

After the crash, Bollea told medical workers<14> that wet roads were the cause of his crash. Viper passenger and pit crew member Barry Lawrence told police that they were "speeding around" and added that Bollea and Jacobs "always drive like that."<14>

After the crash, Jacobs and Lawrence drove to the Bollea family residence to inform Nick's father of the crash. They then returned to the scene of the accident, where they were interviewed by police.<14> Bollea and his passenger, 22-year-old John Graziano, were flown to Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Florida. Bollea was released from care on August 27 and said to be "OK".<16> Graziano, a U.S. Marine<9> and a former member of Bollea's pit crew,<5> was not wearing a seatbelt.<13> The eye and brain injuries he sustained are expected to leave him in a nursing home for the rest of his life.<17>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bollea

[seabeyond]

2. saw a little on king last night. kid driving drunk, had accident, his friend injuried seriously

brain injury....

and no i dont think conversation should be available to anyone for any reason. the excuse of listening is to make sure no problem for prison. anything beyond is wrong. why it is so hard to allow any invasion of privacy cause possibility of going too far. this went too far.

then i have a whole other point of view on the actual situation with hogan and family and situation

[TNOE]

3. For anyone to think that any

conversation in JAIL or PRISON is "private" is a retard. We're supposedly "free" people and we all know nothing we do is really private anymore.

According to Dan Abrams (MSNBC) there were notices posted on the phones & elsewhere that your conversations may or will be monitored.

They were greedy fools and have been exposed. That's why they are pissed. They were trying to figure out their show on this and how it should be done to get the most exposure and make the most money. They had no regard for the injured man whatsoever.