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Would be a lot more cost effective to use electronic means to restrict their access than paying all those people to do it, don't you think?
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I don't think so. And I don't really know a lot about prisons, etc so you could call this speculation. If a prisoner has a genuine case to go online to source information that could lead to his release, I wonder how many prisoners would be deemed to have genuine grounds for it. If they've been convicted then I would imagine in most cases, not all, but most the evidence against them has been strong anyway. And if there is doubt then the next step is usually via appeal through the courts. Our judicial system is what our society accepts as the fairest way to decide whats right and wrong.
I think if a prisoner beleives a miscarriage of justice has been done, and the reasoning behind it can be clearly agreed upon then it's something that should be monitered via the authorities if net access was introduced. Because at the end of the day they have been through the system and found guilty.
Yes it may be cheaper to use an electronic means to restrict access if all prisoners were to be given it, but my stance is they should only have access to it for the above reasons, in which case it would probably be cheaper to have one case worker assigned to a prison or number of prisons, than having an entire security system set up.