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posted by takyon on Saturday August 08 2015, @02:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the outmate dept.

a drone carrying heroin, marijuana, and tobacco dropped its payload over a prison yard crowded with inmates, causing a brief melee before authorities stamped out the brawl with pepper spray, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC).

Local media reported Tuesday that the July 29 melee at the Mansfield Correctional Institution began moments after a drone let loose with the goods. At least nine inmates began fighting over the package while other inmates rushed toward the brawl.

Hmm, time for cryo prisons? Or should the drug delivery man switch to drones that can travel through the plumbing?


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @06:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @06:48PM (#219948)

    So, you're OK with them having access to firearms, alcohol and other things which were likely involved in them being sent away in the first place?

    I am honestly curious as to why you think that treating all rights as indistinguishably interchangeable makes for a convincing argument. Surely you know its not true, so why is that your best defense? Are you trolling?

    I highly doubt that somebody writing in 19th century Russia was referring to anything remotely like what's happening in a 21st century American prison. Prisons of that era were brutal places well above and beyond what's found in the developed world.

    And when Dostoevsky wrote that, there were people just like you saying the exact same thing - how modern russian prisons under the tzars are so much better than what had come before. Better a prison than a pogrom!

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  • (Score: 1) by Francis on Saturday August 08 2015, @08:24PM

    by Francis (5544) on Saturday August 08 2015, @08:24PM (#219981)

    Because the person I was disagreeing with seemed to think that you don't waive any of your rights when you get caught committing a crime and sentenced to prison. Yes, I do know that there's genuinely innocent people in prison, but for practical reasons, you give up damn near all your rights when you go to prison. There's a reason why the process to restore your civil rights exists. It's because you've lost a number of rights such as the right to vote and potentially drink beer and so forth.

    Now, had the person I responded to bothered to bring some clarity, the comment wouldn't have really been appropriate.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @09:43PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @09:43PM (#220005)

      Because the person I was disagreeing with seemed to think that you don't waive any of your rights when you get caught committing a crime and sentenced to prison.

      Uh no, you are the only one who tried to group all civil rights together, equating gun rights with the right to not be forced into a medically induced coma - that was your premise, not anyone else's.

      Yes, I do know that there's genuinely innocent people in prison,

      And that is a red herring. Maybe you are talking to somebody else?

      Now, had the person I responded to bothered to bring some clarity, the comment wouldn't have really been appropriate.

      Clarity to a well known Dostoevsky quote? Did you think it meant something other than what everybody has been thinking it meant for over a hundred years? Of course you understood the meaning perfectly well because you went on to try and argue that it doesn't apply to prisons in the "developed world."

      What I get from your posts is, "prisoners are subhuman so fuck them." Any attempt to examine that belief more closely causes you to throw as much random, even contradictory, shit at the wall and hope something sticks.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2015, @02:12PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2015, @02:12PM (#220248)