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UK Prisons To Crack Down On Inmate Internet and Mobile Phone Use (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: UK prisons will roll out enhanced internet and mobile phone blocking technologies, according to new measures announced yesterday by Chancellor George Osborne in the Autumn Statement. The step, which seeks to stop inmate access to the internet and calls made from mobile devices, will involve part of a £1.3bn investment from the Ministry of Justice to improve the country's Prison Service. Through this strategy, the government hopes to drive "safety improvements" by denying calls and data used on illicit mobile devices. The latest development in blocking technologies promises to be better (paywalled) than earlier systems, which inmates have been able to get around.
The point of having prisons isn't to provide slightly inconvenient paid accommodation to ethically challenged individuals. "Researching their case" does not include keeping drug trades going to finance their defense or "keeping an eye" on possible witnesses against them. They have already proven that they can't handle reality and life on the outside, and Facebook isn't a human right.