Adams was held back from his dreams of making millions as a professional skateboarder because he also was entangled with meth and spent several years in prison. 

A Santa Cruz County Jail inmate program allows inmates to pose for, snap and send photographs to loved ones.

But jail commanders were not happy with Ruffo’s high profile jail photos, and immediately suspended the photo program on Tuesday.

One photo caption on Ruffo's Facebook wall reads, “As all of you know, Ruff is detained and therefore unable to view Facebook. When I saw him today he asked me to attend to a few things, including posting some pictures from his current abode. He's looking well, smiling as ever, keeping his chin up, and helping many people in there - classic case of ‘when life gives you lemons.’ He misses the surf (of course) and his friends.”

One inmate posing with Ruffo in the jail photos is Matt Coletta, 38, of Aptos. Coletta has a lengthy criminal history with Santa Cruz police and was most recently booked on drug possession charges. 

Ruffo was hoping to make a plea deal with prosecutors that would let him dodge jail time, but a Santa Cruz judge handed the surfer a surprisingly stiff sentence on Feb. 21. Because of new state prison laws, Ruffo will only serve one year in jail before he is freed on probation.