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Drone Drops Drugs Into Ohio Prison Yard, Inmate Brawl Ensues

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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, @07:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @07:19PM (#219956)

    You should investigate California's SHUs (Special Housing Units) within their prisons.
    The Pelican Bay SHU is particularly notorious.

    How long do you think you could tolerate solitary confinement before you went off the deep end?
    Months? Years?

    ...and to be put into solitary, all you have to do is have some reading material that prison employees think is politically unacceptable.

    Not ratting out a "gang member" is another SHU-punishable offense.
    You can just imagine the number of "gang members" who are ratted out (with no other evidence) and are then put into the SHU so that the accuser does not receive that treatment.

    USA also has more people in prison than any other country--though it is only the 5th largest county in population, with China and India each having 4x USA's population.
    1 of every 4 prison inmates worldwide is in the USA.
    Are USAians many times more evil than people in other places--or is the USA "justice" system completely perverse?

    -- gewg_

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