Criminals use Facebook to taunt police, ask visitors to bring drugs

JAILED bikies and other prisoners are using Facebook to boast about their easy ride in prison, abuse authorities and request drugs from visitors.

Inmates are regularly updating their details on the social networking site while serving time for crimes such as vicious assaults.

A heavily tattooed Finks bikie recently updated his Facebook profile with a series of bare-chested photographs of himself behind bars at the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre.

He was dubbed the "internet bikie" after police accused him of luring recruits online, and he has lived up to the nickname with regular prison updates for his more than 400 friends.

"Woohoooo! monday, another lovely day in jail," he wrote last

month. One of his Facebook friends is Aaron Drew Scheers, a former Lone Wolf bikie jailed in March for 16 years for cutting off a man's ears over a disputed drug debt.

Scheers turned to Facebook in February to tell hundreds of friends that he would not let prison get the better of him.

"HELLO to all from my little cell i call home for now ... you are all true friends so thankyou from the bottom of my heart," he wrote on an open section of his profile.

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