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?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @09:50PM
> They just wake up to a different world, and are no worse off than they were before.
While I agree with you in general, I think you are grossly underestimating the difficulty of re-integrating into society after being 'frozen' for a couple of decades. It's a problem for regular prisoners - there are people getting out of prison who went in before cell phones existed. They are comparative dinosaurs - adjusting to a couple of decades worth of social and technological change in the space of a few months is profoundly difficult, with or without family and friends to support them in the process. The world simply does not work the way they were taught any more.