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A life in prison has not silenced Christopher Jack Reid.

The former porn star and convicted Pullman rapist continues to share his thoughts with friends and others through an edgy Twitter account and has relied on YouTube to publish a lengthy series of videos that proclaim his innocence by arguing that the victim was manipulated by authorities into giving testimony filled with lies.

Reid, 31, is behind bars for the 2007 rape of a Washington State University student, and his continuing use of social media illustrates a problem prison officials are mostly unable to control.

Authorities want inmates to remain engaged with family and friends and have developed an email system that screens messages for inappropriate content. But social media present new potential problems, and authorities are monitoring them as much as possible for abuse.

So far, for example, the state Department of Corrections (DOC) has asked social-media giant Facebook to shut down 560 profiles of inmates for improper use and violation of the companys own terms of service. Authorities have less leverage with other social-media sites, though.

Reid, who was known in the adult-entertainment industry as Jack Venice, was convicted of breaking into a WSU sorority with Kyle M. Schott, where both raped a woman while she slept.

Schott accepted a plea deal and was convicted of third-degree rape. Reid, however, was convicted by jury of second-degree rape.

Hes fought the conviction since it was handed down in Whitman County, studying Washingtons public-records laws, earning a paralegal certification and even suing the city of Pullman, claiming it improperly presented evidence in his case.

Social-media campaign

Despite being locked up without Internet access in Stafford Creek Corrections Center in Aberdeen, Reid has turned to social media to make his case public.

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Pullman rapist uses social media to claim innocence