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Judges Junk Jailcam

Posted by michael on from the panopticon-foiled-for-now dept.

theodp writes "With one dissenting opinion, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an AZ sheriff's use of Webcams to broadcast prisoners being booked and held in cells constituted a profoundly undesirable level of humiliation, rejecting the sheriff's argument that the Webcasts deterred crime and showed the public how jails work." The Village Voice has a good article from a few years ago detailing how the jailcams work.

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  1. Re:The problem is with *who* the cams are on... by DustMagnet · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Juries are invariably just 12 morons who were too stupid to get out of jury duty.

    As the other comments says, I've never met anyone smart who got to be on a jury. Lawyers hate smart people and three lawyers pick the jury.

    Why wouldn't you want to be on a jury? Do you like juries being stupid? It's like saying the only people who vote are those too stupid to understand it's pointless.

    Now that I think about it, it's probably a good idea you aren't on juries.

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