Prison Inmates using cell phones

Is that a "bad" thing?

They also received H1N1 shots before many of US did.

What's your point?

Point is, it can make organizing criminal activities while incarcerated worlds easier.

Personally, I am more than weary of the liberal treatment of our criminals.  They have weight rooms, and other facilities so we can put better, faster, smarter, and stronger criminals back on the street.

Of course, it's all about "rehabilitation".  You can rehabilitate someone, without making their lives so comfortable while incarcerated.  If you've earned "hard time", you should get it.

Like Chris Rock said, "No one goes to Siberia TWICE.".

Is that where Sears Cares outsources their Call Center to?  The Federal Penitentiary system?

It is all making sense now. If only my license plate had failed instead of my fridge.

I bet they have access to faster terminals...

That link you posted is both accurate and fair. I did not detect any bias at all.

That is not a nice comment Neal.  People abroad wouldn't appreciate you calling them criminals.   I'm pretty sure of that.

Would you?

Well, Neal is very angry right now.

He doesn't really mean to take it out on others, but, sometimes it's just a clinical psychological reaction.

You folks are pretty soft aren't you?

Well, the folks aren't dense.

Get rid of those few full time honest employees that recieve benefit packages. Sears won't need to fork-up any medical insurance contribution.Sears in their quest for ever cheaper labor can use these criminals. Give them all the phones they want, as long as it is on taxpayer's expense. They would not have to follow any bothersome state minimum wage laws. What a great idea!

Sure!   Would you give them your credit card number when purchasing an item on-line?

Don't forget the old adage of, "You get what you pay for."

It works with employees, too.

NealAnderthal said…

 

It is all making sense now. If only my license plate had failed instead of my fridge.

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Hey....my license plate failed.......All the clear plastic laminate peeled off like a Bad Sunburn! Now the plate looks Dull.....Color Faded & Ready for Rust! Looks as if it was mass produced in some State Penitentiary. (pun intended) There is an attempt to repair the California deficit by early releasing the best of the best felon's back to the city streets. The law makers must have figured that a few hours on the license plate assembly line, avoiding the urge to offer a "Shanking" and seeing "Pretty Butterflies" in ink blots was evidence of rehabilitation. Recently one of our local early release felon's decided to go celebrate his easy freedom by accosting a woman.....and some law maker thought he would be a "Good Boy".....he was caught and put back behind bars.......just another perpetual loser and probably planning to write his own  Anti-American Government blog on Wordpress.com (review the URL posted above by uwho)

Lets not open the flood gates with a whether 911 was an inside job or not discussion..

skat!

Did anyone actually go to the link?

TheShrewKrew said…

Did anyone actually go to the link?

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Yes....informed is what I aim for. However, all that a person reads may not be true. I scanned the content of the wordpress blog. My gut feeling is that it is written by a person who hates the US Govrenment, may be in prison with a lap top, believes that there is no Al Queida (spelling ?) and that it is a conspiracy by the CIA to perpetuate the lie tthrough many avenues...blah blah blah bashing of American presidents...more blah blah blah

Civsci said…

Lets not open the flood gates with a whether 911 was an inside job or not discussion..

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Yours is the first mention of the tragic date etc.

Topic is and was...."prisoners with cell phones"....and the politically charged URL in the original post that was designed to propagate a particular belief and inflame emotions.

I visited the blog written by an exprisoner of California Corrections and a Federal pen wherein every possible pixel and space is filled with fanatical 'facts' and was unable to locate "Inmates in Federal prisons are using cell phones."  Maybe I didn't look hard enough; then again, I value my time and eyesight.  I can somewhat see your concern, uwho, due to two things:  one, you live in Beverly Hills, CA and two, you've never been detained or incarcerated in L.A. County Jail and are obviously fearful.  In fact, that is the reason why you posted a provocative sentence without facts and a link to a blog of a person who is unstable and probably from being subjected to two prisons:  fear.  And the replies reflect their own as well.  I'm going to be frank since we're all adults here:  do not concern yourselves.  I am a living example of the real experience in being an inmate in L.A. County Jail, the world's largest jail.  I am disabled, a middle-aged college educated woman, without a criminal history prior to being dumped in the human garbage dump for 2 months with the lowest bail on a Memorial Weekend.  Why?  How? you ask.  Easy:  I got a citation which I was to do community service hours.  Fine.  Except I am disabled and needed to talk to the judge and bring input from my physician.  He didn't like that my physician refused to copy my entire file of the past 12 years and wrote a letter instead.  He continued my case and I fell ill.  Three weeks of a hospital I come home as a 'fugitive' with a warrant.  I went to the court house with my admittance papers and was handcuffed and sent on the express line to LACounty so fast it was like an airplane ride.  To be a female is total misery.  We are the smallest minority and the women are either violent or insane and show it every single day.  As for perks, yes, they are there.  There is a huge TV screen in each block, plenty of pay telephones, a rec room, a vending machine full of snacks, commissary each week for hygiene supplies, church service and books.  Now this is how they are utilized.  The huge mounted color TV is kept on loud, too loud, on either spanish speaking soap operas or talk shows or hit reruns of the Fresh Prince of BelAir, and it competes with the constant PA orders the deputies are screaming at the inmates which if not followed or ignored, is detremental to one's life.  The payphones are owned by the Sheriff department and there is a trick to making a collect call (you can only make collect calls) that is unwritten, unspoken, and impossible to figure for weeks.  The 'rec room' is a tiny triangular area with one basketball and one volleyball (no weights) in which 45 to 50 inmates are crowded into for 90 minutes each Saturday and usually end in brawls or 'sports injuries.'  The vending machine is available only if the deputies want to allow it and is available only to those who had the means to purchase a prepaid card.  Which means it is a source of value to someone starving and without a buck, and when one is stolen and a fight begins, no one gets a Dorito chip.  Books are there, with most pages ripped out or horded as a weapon.  Every mailed letter sent to a prisoner is opened and read for codes or plans thoroughly for weeks before delivered.  This is just a fraction of the perks, boys, trust me.  But if anyone is worried or cares about inmates in a federal pen using a cell phone, and has never had the experience of knowing what a prison truly is, then there is only one thing to know:  it is not a benefit for them and likely a set up to break bones.  No one who walks in ever walks out rehabilitated or having 'learned a hard lesson.'  I was lucky:  I minded my own business, did what I was told to, avoided tempermental inmates and came out with resentment and athletes foot.  But the lessons I learned during that 2 months were so hard and cruel that I lost 40 lbs and know that what folks read and watch about California prisons is propaganda with one true purpose:  to maintain and continue what is now the number one career and job force for millions of workers.  Job security is everyone's bottom line.