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Prisons need employees. The employees are going to want cell coverage between work and home. How about just banning prison visits. That would solve a lot of ot

Prisons need employees. The employees are going to want cell coverage between work and home. How about just banning prison visits. That would solve a lot of other contraband problems too.

pharrington 9y ago
Prisons already have land lines. edit: Banning visits seems unusually cruel.
PeterisP 9y ago
You could quite easily have a special local cell that only connects a whitelisted list of phone numbers; it could even add visitor phones for the duration of the visit.
wolfgke 9y ago
> How about just banning prison visits. That would solve a lot of other contraband problems too. Isn't it common for prison visits that the visitor is separated from the prisoner by some barrier (e.g. some acrylic glass barrier) so that it is nearly impossible to hand over contrabands, where the visitor is in an area that no prisoner can enter (so that the visitor cannot leave some contraband behind). And even if there is something to hand over to the prisoner (either from a visitor and mail) I think it will have to go through security clearance. This shows that any way that a visitor uses to hand over some item can also be used via mail - so banning prison visits avails to nothing.
perfmode 9y ago
Contraband often comes in through employees.
- DoreenMichele 9y ago
  Well, the solution is clear: We ban employees. /s
  - user5994461 9y ago
    Looks like a future project for HN disruption. Automating the prisons.
    - Fej 9y ago
      An automated panopticon.
pessimizer 9y ago
In what calculus would cellphone service for prison employees at work outweigh prisoner visits?
Feniks 9y ago
Actually that would be in violation of human rights. Also prisoners have a right to see their lawyer.
scrollaway 9y ago
> How about just banning prison visits. This is sarcasm right? Because if you just want to disregard human life, you might as well just kill everybody instead of incarcerating. No more prisons then! Problem solved?

Prisons need employees. The employees are going to want cell coverage between work and home. How about just banning prison visits. That would solve a lot of other contraband problems too.

pharrington 9y ago

Prisons already have land lines. edit: Banning visits seems unusually cruel.

PeterisP 9y ago

You could quite easily have a special local cell that only connects a whitelisted list of phone numbers; it could even add visitor phones for the duration of the visit.

wolfgke 9y ago

> How about just banning prison visits. That would solve a lot of other contraband problems too. Isn't it common for prison visits that the visitor is separated from the prisoner by some barrier (e.g. some acrylic glass barrier) so that it is nearly impossible to hand over contrabands, where the visitor is in an area that no prisoner can enter (so that the visitor cannot leave some contraband behind). And even if there is something to hand over to the prisoner (either from a visitor and mail) I think it will have to go through security clearance. This shows that any way that a visitor uses to hand over some item can also be used via mail - so banning prison visits avails to nothing.

perfmode 9y ago

Contraband often comes in through employees.

DoreenMichele 9y ago
Well, the solution is clear: We ban employees. /s
- user5994461 9y ago
  Looks like a future project for HN disruption. Automating the prisons.
  - Fej 9y ago
    An automated panopticon.

pessimizer 9y ago

In what calculus would cellphone service for prison employees at work outweigh prisoner visits?

Feniks 9y ago

Actually that would be in violation of human rights. Also prisoners have a right to see their lawyer.

scrollaway 9y ago

> How about just banning prison visits. This is sarcasm right? Because if you just want to disregard human life, you might as well just kill everybody instead of incarcerating. No more prisons then! Problem solved?