Some people look for love in all the wrong places, including prison.
The basic problem confronted by the likes of Martinez and victims' rights groups is pretty simple, namely the 1st Amendment protection of a prisoner's right to send and receive mail. There are only limited circumstances in which mail can be censored by prison authorities. For sure, Web personals are a distinctly new development. To some, they represent a method of prisoners to obtain needed, and perhaps healthful, human contact. To others they represent a method for bad men and women to target future marks, especially since the sites tend to offer precious little information on a person's criminal record.