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Prisoner takes selfies in prison van, uploads photos to Facebook

[Inmate Shane Holbrook is seen in this picture he took from a police van / Facebook]

We all know someone who constantly posts selfies to Facebook, but who can say they know of someone who has posted a selfie of themselves while in police custody?

On April 25, Shane Holbrook, a man facing robbery and malicious wounding charges in West Virginia, managed to do just that. He took pictures of himself with other prisoners in a transport van after returning from an unsuccessful court hearing and uploaded three of the images to Facebook.

Complete with Holbrook in chains, handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit, the photos include the captions “On the van,” “Go hard all day,” and “Keep up,” which he told WSAZ were inside jokes.

“Keep up” in particular, he told the station was a way of saying to family and friends to keep their heads up while he’s in prison.

“We just wanted to pose and let our families and loved ones know that we wasn’t doing that bad,” Holbrook said.

The prisoner wouldn’t tell the press exactly how he got what he believed was a cellphone to take and upload the photos but hinted he got the device between the time he went to the court from jail and when he came back. Holbrook wasn’t oblivious to the fact that he was breaking jail policy either.

“I know you’re not allowed to have a cell phone in jail. It just happened. It’s just the way things work sometimes,” he told the station. “Lightning strikes trees, comets fall to earth, a guy in jail gets a cell phone sometimes. That’s just the way this works.”

“I regret that somebody may get in trouble,” Holbrook said to WSAZ. “I know there’s people with jobs and families to feed and if this falls on someone and they lose their job because of this, I’m a feel like a piece of crap for a while. But at the same time, I’m a kid at daycare. And just because I drank the bleach, doesn’t mean it wasn’t my fault.”

Officials told WCHS that they are investigating the incident.