A Louisiana jail illegally copied and sold its inmates copies of recordings by hundreds of artists, including the Rolling Stones, Eminem and Garth Brooks, according to a record company's lawsuit.
The suit alleges that the Claiborne Parish prison gave incoming inmates a list of 330 rock, rap, country and R&B recordings available through the commissary for $3 per compact disc.
An inmate copied the ones requested by prisoners or visitors, said Roy Maughan Jr., the lawyer who filed the suit for Baton Rouge-based Utopia Entertainment.
"You'd just tell them what you wanted and they'd burn you a copy," Maughan said Tuesday.
The defendants are Claiborne Parish Sheriff Kenneth Volentine; LaSalle Management, the private company that manages the men's section of the northern Louisiana jail; and an inmate who allegedly copied the CDs on a computer in a prison office.
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