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US Lawmakers Propose Allowing Prisons To Jam Signals From Smuggled Cellphones (apnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the Associated Press:
Federal legislation proposed Thursday would give state prison officials the ability they have long sought to jam the signals of cellphones smuggled to inmates within their walls... The legislation could help provide a solution to a problem prison officials have said represents the top security threat to their institutions.
Corrections chiefs across the country have long argued for the ability to jam the signals, saying the phones -- smuggled into their institutions by the thousands, by visitors, errant employees, and even delivered by drone -- are dangerous because inmates use them to carry out crimes and plot violence both inside and outside prison.
Corrections chiefs across the country have long argued for the ability to jam the signals, saying the phones -- smuggled into their institutions by the thousands, by visitors, errant employees, and even delivered by drone -- are dangerous because inmates use them to carry out crimes and plot violence both inside and outside prison.
Do you want to breed crime?
Cause this is how you breed crime!
Will American ever get, that there is no such thing as just punishment?
That there is no difference between the one who did harm and the one who did harm as punishment/revenge?
That all it does, is grow the exact traumata that turned those people into criminals.
And teach them that not harm itself is the bad thing, but that they did not say "but he deserved it!" and convince others of it.
Oh, wait, I forgot! Law enforcement is a *business* over there! A *for-profit* business! With shareholders... demanding growing growing growth growth... shall grow!
Nevermind then.
We'll just wait until the wasteland becomes habitable to humans again. (Those unlizardly-brained things with empathy and common sense.)