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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: 2) by Popeidol on Sunday August 09 2015, @10:35AM
Nowadays we have a bunch of tech that could detect 'things flying in the area' on a relatively low budget: lots of cheap outdoor cameras and object tracking in software might work, radar might work, sensors to detect and track EMF emissions might work, etc. With a bit of flight path analysis you could probably count out almost all the birds/kites/plastic bags.
As you mentioned, the tricky part is what to do with the data. Most offensive options are out because you'd inevitably hit birds or bystanders. You don't want to be putting everybody on alert each time the system reports a high probability because you're guaranteed to mostly have false alarms. Frequency jamming would probably work fine right now but wouldn't do a damn thing once autonomous drones become more common (and GPS jamming is pretty illegal while being possible to work around)
So yeah, after you run through the technology you just end up with 'put up a big net'. The free market will come up with some nice systems involving lasers or anti-drone-drones or specially trained hawks, which most prisons will not implement unless it becomes a serious problem for them.
I'm looking forward to the first few amazon drones being taken out before they blacklist prisons from their potential delivery locations.