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Prisons Moving To All-Video Visitation (mic.com)
"A new system called 'video visitation' is replacing in-person jail visits with glitchy, expensive Skype-like video calls," reports Tech.Mic. "It's inhumane, dystopian and actually increases in-prison violence -- but god, it makes money."
Slashdot reader gurps_npc writes: In-person costs a lot to administer, while you can charge people to 'visit' via video conferencing. (Charge as in overcharge -- just like they charge up to $14 a minute for normal, audio only telephone calls). This is new, and the few studies that have been done show that doing this increases violence in the prison -- and it's believed to also increase recidivism. But the companies making a ton on it like that -- repeat customers and all. Of course, the service is horrible, often being full of static and dropped calls -- and the company doesn't help you fix the problem.
Meanwhile, the EFF reports that last year Facebook disabled 53 U.S prisoner and 74 U.K. prisoner accounts at the request of the government, and is urging people to report takedown requests for inmate social media to OnlineCensorship.org.
Slashdot reader gurps_npc writes: In-person costs a lot to administer, while you can charge people to 'visit' via video conferencing. (Charge as in overcharge -- just like they charge up to $14 a minute for normal, audio only telephone calls). This is new, and the few studies that have been done show that doing this increases violence in the prison -- and it's believed to also increase recidivism. But the companies making a ton on it like that -- repeat customers and all. Of course, the service is horrible, often being full of static and dropped calls -- and the company doesn't help you fix the problem.
Meanwhile, the EFF reports that last year Facebook disabled 53 U.S prisoner and 74 U.K. prisoner accounts at the request of the government, and is urging people to report takedown requests for inmate social media to OnlineCensorship.org.
"...pot makes one more aggressive for a short time immediately after consuming/smoking."
I call bullshit. After consuming pot in multiple ways with hundreds of other people in all kinds of situations for over 40 years, I've never seen this "effect", period.
I no longer smoke or consume pot, but I repeat: I have never, ever seen anyone become more aggressive after using it, immediately or otherwise.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Not every addict is taking heroin. Some start Oxy, or Ativan, or (common drug here) because a doctor prescribed it and they became addicted to it without any intent. Did you know there are certain genes that make drugs like Ativan super addictive? Mutations to liver enzyme pathways CYP450 2D6 and 3A4 combined in the right increase/decrease of those enzymes make the drug between 4 and 10 times as powerful as it is expected to be; meaning a doctor who prescribes the medication in a good faith dosage could be starting a person's addiction. And that mutation occurs in between 5% and 10% of people of certain ethnicity. Certain mutations of just the CYP450 2D6 enzyme pathway can make Oxy (or any codeine prodrug) super-effective, causing your body to turn more than the expected 5% of codeine into morphine: imagine the doctor thinking you were taking a pill that was supposed to be 5mg and it was actually 20mg, the effect is the same.
source: self. had to get a gene test when I needed an anti-anxiety but had just barely avoided an ativan habit. can't remember the first test that was done, but the second is Genesight