seamusTX wrote:Cell phone jamming is illegal under federal law. This is a hot topic. You can search the web for it.chasfm11 wrote:Some of this is pretty easy to fix. Cell phone jamming equipment is available,...
I agree the law can be changed, but someone has to lobby for it. The extent of prison corruption is not widely known until it turns into a sex scandal, and then the news-consuming public just twitters and smirks about it.
Legislators are busy advancing their own pet projects. In this forum we say that you can't prevent crime by fettering law-abiding citizens, and I agree. However legislators and public officials on both sides of the aisle are quick to do exactly that, requiring registration of over-the-counter antihistamines and going on witch hunts for pornography and prostitution.
P.S.: Again, it's easy to say that government can't spend more than it takes in. Fine, that's obvious. State prisons are paid for largely by state sales tax. County jails are paid for by local real-estate tax and the county share of sales tax. If we want to spend more on prisons and jails, something else has to give. That could road construction and maintenance, schools, policing, Medicaid, parks, etc. A small number of lines items are a big proportion of the budget.
TANSTAAFL.
- Jim
I also understand the free lunch problem. Your registration of anti-histamines is indeed a great example of how I'm monitored and criminals are not. Those programs cost money and if the cell phone traffic out of the prison were monitored (hospitals have prohibitions against cell phones so there is no reason those could not be made in prisons, too - then the only traffic coming out of the facility would have to be deemed illegal) My point is that there are ways to get underneath some of this and the money is better spent there than in the constant catching, trying and re-incarceration of recidivists.