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2 Arrested In Plot To Fly Contraband Into Prison With Drone
An anonymous reader writes: Using a drone to get contraband into prison seems to be all the rage lately. Police say two men attempting to fly drugs, tobacco and pornography into a Maryland state prison with a drone were arrested Monday. Stephen T. Moyer, secretary of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services worries that someone will try to use a drone to deliver a gun. "That's my biggest fear," he told a news conference. "The use of these drones to bring this type of contraband into a facility is very, very troubling, and we're going to address it."
...until the lack of fresh air and sunlight is deemed cruel and unusual punishment, and the unnatural environment is found to be detrimental to rehabilitation.
The obvious answers to simple questions have usually already been considered, and have already been rejected for reasons obvious to others.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
Why? Just ban prisoners.
Or legalize the porn and tobacco. Prohibition makes it profitable, as always, and the will finds a way.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
County "prisons" are usually jails and reserved for terms of a year or less, though there are exceptions.
In prisons, where people can spend decades, we owe it to ourselves as a society to have some degree of humanity. There are a lot of people fighting for the cruel and capricious use of solitary confinement.
If rehabilitation were the main goal of imprisonment, then there would be no practical reason to keep people in prison after they are rehabilitated, and knowing that they'll be set free as soon as they are reformed would be a powerful motivator for prisoners to avoid breaking the rules by, for example, accepting contraband by drone.
Amazing things could happen if we were to align the goals of prisoners with the goals of the rest of society.
Any sufficiently unpopular but cohesive argument is indistinguishable from trolling.
Right, prohibition never works. Prisons just need more porn, tobacco, alcohol, and drugs.
Prisons everywhere have alcohol... Apparently, it's quite low tech.
Porn, tobacco, and drugs are made artificially scarce by their prohibition, which, as I understand things,
Leads to a sellers' market.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
can you give me another example of where radio signals are scrambled by the government?
My understanding is that some US law enforcement SWAT, Bomb Squad teams and, other counter-terrorism forces might employ tactical jamming devices when conducting certain raids in order to suppress targets' access to cellular data networks and other wireless communications, until personal electronics have been secured with targets in custody, this also helps prevent video footage of raids from getting released or saved to the cloud.
If the package is literally made of grass... then you might not catch it.
And worse yet, what if the yard is bermuda grass, and some a-hole drops tall fescue seed all over the yard?
A nightmare. A living nightmare it would be.
It seems so. After all, we have prosecutors fighting against releasing prisoners even after they are exonerated.