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Having done jail time, in the UK but I guess it's the same for US, I can say that prisons are staffed by people who feel their careers are hostage to their mist

Having done jail time, in the UK but I guess it's the same for US, I can say that prisons are staffed by people who feel their careers are hostage to their mistakes appearing as newspaper headlines; and also having an uninformed take on technology driven by tabloid headlines. I remember in 2018 being denied access to Bitcoin books that were sent in to me because "it is used in crime" (This was at a time when it wasn't clear that Bitcoin/Crypto actually was just largely a scummy grift and when their was a belief in genuine potential.) They only reacted to Daily Mail headlines. They also banned Spanish language lessons in the belief learning it would enable Cocaine dealing, presumably arranging shipments from South America: the larger potential was lost on them. I'm assuming that here the Ohio prison system is worried about facilitating "hacking" with the same dopey myopic policy analysis endemic in all penal systems.

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mrguyorama 3y ago
> in the UK but I guess it's the same for US Why would you even think this? There is very little comparable between the US and UK prison system, like from even basic goals.
- fsckboy 3y ago
  > like from even basic goals I just want to make sure you didn't mean, "or from even basic gaols"
- davidwritesbugs 3y ago
  Perhaps you've done time in both countries but I haven't. I'm merely guessing at the personal motivations of staff as they perform their roles, and making an assumption these might be approximately similar. The policy goals and strategies of the systems may differ, but only by degree its seems - unlike the Scandanavians, but its individuals who execute them and interpret the rules to achieve those ends. Fearful stupid or prejudiced screws only, well often - let's be fair, consider their own interests whatever the policy goals are.

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mrguyorama 3y ago

> in the UK but I guess it's the same for US Why would you even think this? There is very little comparable between the US and UK prison system, like from even basic goals.

fsckboy 3y ago
> like from even basic goals I just want to make sure you didn't mean, "or from even basic gaols"
davidwritesbugs 3y ago
Perhaps you've done time in both countries but I haven't. I'm merely guessing at the personal motivations of staff as they perform their roles, and making an assumption these might be approximately similar. The policy goals and strategies of the systems may differ, but only by degree its seems - unlike the Scandanavians, but its individuals who execute them and interpret the rules to achieve those ends. Fearful stupid or prejudiced screws only, well often - let's be fair, consider their own interests whatever the policy goals are.