Are you allowed to use a computer in the US when you are in prison? Hans Raiser, the creater of the ReiserFS filesystem was senteced to prison for murder 1, 2, 3.

As a long time ReiserFS user, who currently tries to fix one of my corrupted ext3 hard drives, I always was disappointed that Reiser 4 was never released in a production state.


While Hans Reiser deserves his time, is there no way he could keep working on Reiser4 in prison and actually DO something for society? Given all his weaknesses, he has already given a lot (ReiserFS). So is this unthinkable that he would be allowed to keep working on it?