Judges Junk Jailcam

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.

Comments

Re:I always wondered

[dustinbarbour]

I loved this man's policies. In my opinion, he is one of America's finest sheriffs so far as kickin' ass and treating criminals as they should be. Hooray for chain gangs, stripped uniforms, and wecams!

Re:innocent

[DroppedPacket]

Perhaps you really don't understand what innocent means. Let me try with small words.

Let's say I find this guy in an alley and decide that I want to kill him. I slit his throat, and disolve his body in a pit of quicklime. I am never even arrested for this. You therefore would say that I am innocent of murder, or that I have no guilt.

You are a sad, strange little man. Farewell!