http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/ Engadget Comments for House passes Cellphone Contraband Act of 2010, prisoners go back to writing letters http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 21st 2010 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/
I'd love to see someone updating their facebook status in prison from their cell.

"OMGz totally just dropped the soap. Toodles!"]]>Jul 21st 2010 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/
HEY JOEY, I NEED YOU TO TAKE CARE OF THAT THING !

- What thing?

YOU KNOW, DAT THING OVER IN THE BRONX !

- You mean you need me to SEE a guy?

YEAH, I need you to SEE EM... PERMANENTLY.]]>Jul 21st 2010 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/
They smuggle cell phone parts in, and reassemble them to create a working phone. It's not like they are allowing them to bring cell phones in.

Sometimes by carrier pigeon:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/devious-carrier-pigeon-caught-trying-to-smuggle-cellphone-parts/]]>Jul 21st 2010 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 21st 2010 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/
Hello? Prison Break?

Now how will Michael Scofield be able to record the movement of the guards underneath the infirmary window?]]>Jul 21st 2010 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/
the mistresses get replaced with misters. clearly you haven't seen Oz :-P]]>Jul 21st 2010 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 21st 2010 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/
Even if you smuggle in cellphones, I simply can't believe there are sockets for the prisoners to use to charge them...wouldn't that make it possible for them to commit suicide via electrocution?

Thing is, alot of these unwanted cellphone problems could be solved using a CELL PHONE JAMMER like the one I purchased from Ebay.

When I'm in the theater, NOBODY IS INTERRUPTING ME.

CAUSE I SAID SO.]]>Jul 21st 2010 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 21st 2010 9:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 21st 2010 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Sure, Pruno rules!]]>Jul 21st 2010 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/You sound upset.

Would you like some Merlot? I made it in the toilet.]]>Jul 21st 2010 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/
pick better movies, Will. you're funnier than that movie xp]]>Jul 21st 2010 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/I think it's funny. ]]>Jul 21st 2010 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 21st 2010 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 21st 2010 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 21st 2010 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/
I'll give you guys one guess where this is from.]]>Jul 21st 2010 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/wikipedia?]]>Jul 21st 2010 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 21st 2010 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 21st 2010 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 21st 2010 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 21st 2010 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 22nd 2010 5:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/
You probably think that all those illegals are just coming here to get jobs that Americans won't do, right?]]>Jul 24th 2010 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 21st 2010 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/
Doe filed a lawsuit on March 3, 2008, alleging that guards would come to her cell in the middle of the night and force her to have sex in the guards’ bathroom. Doe, who is afflicted with obstructive pulmonary lung disease, became pregnant from the rapes. She was an ex-beauty pageant winner, and apparently attractive enough that the guards did not care that she had to tote her oxygen tank with her to the bathroom where they would rape her.

“You can’t fight them because they grip you from behind the neck,” she said. “You don’t know if they’re going to kill you.”

Doe tried to report the attacks on numerous occasions. But instead of help, a prison administrator threatened to have a year added to her sentence. She was placed in segregation and her letters to her attorney and the media were intercepted or blocked. She was sexually assaulted 29 times, both before and after she was put in segregation.

In January 2007, after she was released, Doe gave birth to a baby boy. Her lawsuit names the warden, assistant warden, two lieutenants and eight prison guards who allegedly participated in a “rape squad.” [See: Doe v. Denning, U.S.D.C. (ND. Ill.), Case No. 1:08-cv-01265]."

Hey guys, is prison rape still funny?]]>Jul 21st 2010 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/No grumbles there are people here with a sense of humor. Its well known that our prison system is in massive disarray. That it does not rehabilitate but instead fosters and grows hardened criminals. That there are people who abuse the system throughout including some prisoners themselves.

However humor is a way of talking about issues that would normally make ordinary people squirm or at least shutdown. People don't like hearing uncomfortable stories. If some stories are too strange or different for an outsider it wil most likely be brushed off or ignored.

Humor is just as much of thought and speech as any other style. Loosen up a little. It won't hurt so much.]]>Jul 21st 2010 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/
Actually, it's not well-known, and attitudes like those above do nothing but perpetuate the problem(s).]]>Jul 21st 2010 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Like the guy in the 50$ prison suit is going to smuggle a phone, COME ON!]]>Jul 21st 2010 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Yes!]]>Jul 21st 2010 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 21st 2010 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 21st 2010 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/
Comment of the week! Your wit and timing is impeccable.

@ grumbles

Why so serious? Yes we all know rape is wrong and bad but the original comment was actually quite funny. Like you've never told a dirty joke.]]>Jul 21st 2010 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 21st 2010 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/Jul 21st 2010 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/
If you're in prison you should be eating bread, water, and vitamin supplements, sleeping on cheap beds, and doing back work of some sort to pay back your debt to society. If you manage not to stab or rape someone while you're in there then you should be able to go to a place of worship or a library of some sort to try and better yourself, and use that as an incentive to be on good behavior. Not fucking televisions and shit. That's ridiculous. My god damn tax dollars are paying for that.]]>Jul 21st 2010 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/house-passes-cellphone-contraband-act-of-2010-prisoners-go-back/
Cell-phone jammers are not good either because they could block the cellphones of people who are outside the prison but still within the jamming radius. (although whether its possible to make the jamming radius the right size to cover the prison and nothing else I dont know)
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Stupid congressmen need to go home and quit messing up our lives.]]>Jul 24th 2010 10:20PM