Calif. inmates obtain prison employee data

The AP reports:

Inmates gained access to personal information about prison employees, including their Social Security numbers, after the state unlawfully allowed them to work in a warehouse storing the data, a guard union said Thursday.

Inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison also had access to papers containing employees' birth dates and pension account information, as well as prison blueprints, said the California Correctional Peace Officers Association.

State and union officials said they didn't know how many prisoners might have gotten hold of the personal information.

The inmates' work in the warehouse violated a law barring the Corrections Department from assigning prisoners to jobs giving them access to others' personal information, union president Mike Jimenez said.

But,FDR said Social Security would never be used as a national ID.It appears the welfare state is being hoisted by its own petard.