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Officials at the Lieber Correctional Institution in Ridgeville, South Carolina say that a prisoner escaped by using wire cutters flown in by a drone:
A fugitive South Carolina inmate recaptured in Texas this week had chopped his way through a prison fence using wire cutters apparently dropped by a drone, prison officials said Friday. Jimmy Causey, 46, fled the Lieber Correctional Institution in Ridgeville, S.C., on the evening of July 4th after leaving a paper mache doll in his bed to fool guards into thinking he was asleep. He was not discovered missing until Wednesday afternoon.
[...] The director said he and other officials have sought federal help for years to combat the use of drones to drop contraband into prison. "It's a simple fix," Stirling said. "Allow us to block the signal. Allow us to stop them to have unfettered access ... They are physically incarcerated, but they are not virtually incarcerated." "As long as they have access to cellphones, this is just going to keep on happening and happening and happening," he said, The Post and Courier reported.
Also at LA Times and The Washington Post.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @08:11PM (2 children)
The Federal prisons I've visited all used guards who constantly drove around the outside perimeter ( on a road which borders the outside of two fences which are outside of the laser alarm perimeter ).
These guards all carry an M-16. The M-16 would achieve the same end result as the lasers you mention, and they cost a lot less.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @08:31PM (1 child)
It really worked for this guy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @01:22AM
The guy didn't escape from a Federal prison. You need to work on your reading comprehension.