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> Brady alerted the staff, and a lieutenant squeezed into the cramped space, snapping photos to document what they’d found. A couple of inmates pulled down the

> Brady alerted the staff, and a lieutenant squeezed into the cramped space, snapping photos to document what they’d found. A couple of inmates pulled down the computers, and carted them away. Brady later told investigators that he didn’t realize just how troubling the discovery was. “It didn’t click for me that, oops, this might be a crime scene until after we had found everything,” he said. “And a couple days later, I went, ‘Ah, shit.’” really? you found a lowly computer sitting in a ceiling in a prison and he didn't think much about it?

olympus 9y ago
Brady was the IT guy, thinking about crimes wasn't his gig. The inmates weren't going to say anything. If the lieutenant mentioned is a police LT and not just a generic term for assistant, then it's the lieutenant's fault for not mentioning that it was obviously illegal. I think the distinction that needs to be made is that hiding a computer in the ceiling is breaking the prison's rules, but not illegal in itself. There is no law saying that felons can't access the internet- that prohibition only happen in specific cases related to computers (fraud, child porn distribution, etc.). It could have been that the inmates were just browsing the internet, which isn't illegal. Brady the IT guy didn't think that convicts have less to lose and are more likely to conduct actually illegal activities with their computer network.