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"We were just trying to have a good time in jail. We're already here, why be miserable?" he told WVAH. "I said hi to a couple of people to let everyone know I was doing all right -- family and friends."

One reason to be miserable might be because you're in jail on charges of malicious wounding and armed robbery.

Still, Holbrook further explained to WSAZ-TV, "I wasn't going to dwell on the negative. I was going to focus on the positive and keep moving forward with this."

Some might wonder, however, how he got hold of a cell phone and spent an apparent 20 minutes posting his Facebook pictures.

"Let's just say I found it," he said of the phone. "It was within my reach."

The West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety offered me this statement: "The West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority requires pat-downs of all individuals when they enter its custody, as part of the agency's zero tolerance policy against contraband. The incident in question remains under investigation. The device at issue was confiscated before the inmates entered the Weste Regional Jail."

Holbrook, though, told WSAZ, "I just know how to use the system to my advantage sometimes."