The use of the Internet belonging to social life also affects prisoners. Professional research accentuates the possibility of internet communication with loved ones and new possibilities of education via the Internet as a re-socialization tool to reduce recurrence. European prison rules and some national legislation take into account the link with fundamental human rights, other state systems or their partial prisons deny it. Some prisons also have special Internet applications. The relation between the access of prisoners to the Internet and the rate of imprisonment of the population, respectively crime rate, can be evaluated by statistical methods and comparisons, or numerically and descriptively.