RECOMMENDED PROHIBITION.

SEC. 802. RECOMMENDED PROHIBITION. (a) Findings.— Congress finds that— (1) a Minnesota State prisoner, serving 23 years for molesting teenage girls, worked for a nonprofit work and education program inside the prison, through which the prisoner had unsupervised access to the Internet; (2) the prisoner, through his unsupervised access to the Internet, trafficked in child pornography over the Internet; (3) Federal law enforcement authorities caught the prisoner with a computer disk containing 280 pictures of juveniles engaged in sexually explicit conduct; (4) a jury found the prisoner guilty of conspiring to trade in child pornography and possessing child pornography; (5) the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota sentenced the prisoner to 87 months in Federal prison, to be served upon the completion of his 23-year State prison term; and (6) there has been an explosion in the use of the Internet in the United States, further placing our Nation’s children at risk of harm and exploitation at the hands of predators on the Internet and increasing the ease of trafficking in child pornography. (b) Sense of the Congress.— It is the sense of the Congress that State Governors, State legislators, and State prison administrators should prohibit unsupervised access to the Internet by State prisoners.