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: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday July 09 2017, @12:14AM (1 child)
How good are we at pinpointing the location of a cell signal? Good enough that someone loitering in the parking lot wouldn't trigger the system?
No, the perimeter of the prison should be equipped with something called a "wall."
Lasers have no use in this case and would cause far more problems than they would solve.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @01:37AM
"No, the perimeter of the prison should be equipped with something called a "wall."
Lasers have no use in this case and would cause far more problems than they would solve."
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You don't know anything about the subject of prison security, that is painfully obvious.
Laser perimeter alarms ( which are typically several hundred feet INSIDE the fence or wall ) will be tripped by anyone who approaches the fence or wall and the alarm will be triggered, before the person who triggered the alarm can reach the fence or wall. The laser alarm system allows the guards to pinpoint the location of the laser beam breach and quickly respond. I doubt such a system was in place and operating at the prison the inmate escaped from, because if it was the inmate would not have been able to escape through the fence, since the guards would have arrived and captured the inmate before the inmate had time to cut the fence.
The laser alarms work. I have seen them work. You're wrong if you think the laser alarms have no use. I'm sure the people who run prisons would find your opinion humorous though.