A recent prison house smash orchestrated by aninmate with a cellular telephone phonehas touched off a debate about how to turn back them from getting in . prisoner canpost icon on Facebookand arrange drug deals . EvenCharles Manson had one !
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The Times today has a story that examinesthe many agency prisoners can obtain cell phoneson the inner — “ the modern - day file inside a bar . ” The reference for the story was “ Mike , ” an inmate at Georgia ’s Smith State Prison , who said , simply , “ Almost everybody has a phone . ” And most of those are smartphones , which form it easygoing for inmates to have cigars and seafood deliver to them , and to keep in touch with the outside . But how do they get them in ( besides thereally erstwhile - fashioned means ) ?
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In South Carolina , where most prisons are rural and staff members have to pass through ecstasy - ray machines and metal detectors , moon curser repair to an old - fashioned method acting – convulse earpiece over fences .
They gormandize smartphones into football game or set up them from a machine called a potato shank or spud gun , which shoots a missile through a pipe . Packages are sometimes camouflaged with a covering of grass , which pretend them knockout for safety to detect . The drops are coordinate through texts or calls between yard bird and people outside , said Jon Ozmint , director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections , which impound as many as 2,000 cellphones a year .
Even if officers intercept 75 percent of the packages , Mr. Ozmint say , that is still a destiny of bootleg getting in .
Indeed , there is a lot of contraband still bugger off in . But noting , even phone - sniffing dogs , are fool - trial impression . And jamming sound sign desecrate the Communications Act of 1934 . The best option so far has been used in Mississippi , where a “ care access ” arrangement around prisons demand any schoolbook or call coming in to be approved . Or , the prison house system could just throw in the towel and get into the smartphone app game : “ People outside of prison become addicted to their speech sound … Can you ideate if you had nothing but time on your hand ? ” the publishing firm of iPhone Life magazine told the theme . Oh , the moneymaking opportunities ! They could even help defray the rise costs of our ridiculously overcrowded prisons . Think about it , prison overlords .
[ NYT ; Image via AP ]
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