Senate Greenlights Jamming Cell Signals Near Prisons
Missing the real reason
Disrespect said:
It is but you have to be rational. Not everyone in there is a criminal. there are some that are indeed innocent and just haven't been proven yet. So in their defense how do you give them unbearable living conditions? damn you are so cruel. Its called humanity. Yes most are criminals but the idea is to correct more so then punish.
Oh give me a break! I can understand not wanting to overcharge people for calls, but please, not the "i'm innocent baloney".
What about Mendella's case or how ever you spell his name? He deserved that?
open your eyes people. Nevermind yall are too high on your horse it doesn't even matter.
Disrespect said:
True but you one dimmensional its my way or the highway a$$ people cant get it.
What about Mendella's case or how ever you spell his name? He deserved that?
open your eyes people. Nevermind yall are too high on your horse it doesn't even matter.
Nelson Mandela? The South African who was jailed in South Africa? How does this have ANYTHING to do with cellphone calls in American prisons? Seriously Im not an expert or anything but I know it had to do with apartheid in Africa, not cell phone calls in America and yes I realize he was unjustly jailed, but the justice system down there is faaar different than in the US.
Disrespect said:
It is but you have to be rational. Not everyone in there is a criminal. there are some that are indeed innocent and just haven't been proven yet. So in their defense how do you give them unbearable living conditions? damn you are so cruel. Its called humanity. Yes most are criminals but the idea is to correct more so then punish.
I'm certain that, if proven innocent, they can then file a motion to recoup what they "lost" in the course of proving their lack of guilt. Do they charge for personal visit from family? I doubt they do....and that being said, the phone is a luxury.
We aren't talking about a holding cell here.
I say again, the reason behind the jamming is revenue based, nothing more. Any additional benefit is purely circumstance. Prisoners have been communicating and directing their affairs beyond their cells for hundreds of years and don't need a phone to get the job done, though it is certainly more convenient. The prison system has been operating a market with zero competition for a very long time and they want to ensure that they can continue to do so.
Crime is committed by users of cell phones within prisons. If you want to lobby for a more competitve "pay phone" system within a prison then go for it but do not use this as the reason for the attempted ban.
You also aren't going to get much sympathy from elected officials. Any methods to recoup the costs of running the prisons for the taxpayers is not an area said officials are going to back away from easily. No one in prison has a "right" to lower cost telephone use.
Prisoners may have been communicating and directing their crimes, oops, affairs, for hundreds of years before cell phones but that does not excuse officials from trying to contain those crimes.
I did not say prisoners had a right to cell phone use, nor did I say that use should be cheap. I merely pointed out that revenue, not crime, is the real reason they want to ban cell use.
You're an abrasive dude, Texas, but that's internet discussion for ya.
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