Team Rising debates a new BOP policy that is raising serious questions about prisoners' right to privacy.
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Mark 7's
That’s not new!
Kurt
their editors they can be liable for many different US mail violations technically
Gar p
This is dumb, checking inmates mail as been done forever and with good reason, not just about drugs.
Gar p
@Morenito Moreno you still have human rights as a criminal, but having your mail unchecked in whats supposed to be a secure facility isn’t a human right. Never has been, never will be. People making vax id mandatory and your worried about prisoners getting their mail scanned lol
D LG
This comment exemplifies how a lot of Americans don’t give a sh*t about anyone’s rights but their own. This kind of self righteous arrogance and lack of concern for EVERYONE’S human rights is one of the primary drivers of the ongoing decline of the USA.
Gar p
@D LG if your in jail its because you violated someone else’s rights, (aside from those wrongfully convicted or in for drug use). Its obscenely strange to me the concern over criminals rights rather than the rights of citizens who havent violated other citizens rights. If your in a triple max you either killed or r’d, at that point your rights are gone, and the fact prisons are worldwide would suggest most people agree.
Critical Mass
@Gar p no you dont
D LG
@Gar p And they are in PRISON (not jail) paying their debt, not to mention the fact that many people in prison were wrongfully convicted by a corrupt system, but I suspect that doesn’t matter to you either. In any case, at what point do you believe a prisoner should regain their humanity, since you are clearly fine with it being taken from them? I suspect that would be never. Some people just need to feel morally superior over an underclass. You sound a lot like that kind of person.
muffin
Evidently you don’t realize fentanyl comes in skin patches.
Cryptolese
Right. The tiniest patches
Painless Nate
the skin patch requires a delivery system more complex than a piece of soaked paper
Cryptolese
@Painless Nate It’s a gel inside the patch. You can just let it absorb in the paper.
It’s not that difficult.
steve jette
Here’s an idea: Have an actual EXPERT say something.
ISeeDogs
That is verboten
Cryptolese
Fentanyl comes in tiny patches. LSD literally comes on paper.
I expect to have my mail gone through if I’m in prison.
lindegirl 333
No you don’t if it was you doubt it especially with your girlfriend writing you..
Cryptolese
@lindegirl 333 I never said it was right. I just expect it
Swope
Conservative ken doll makes a good point for once. The notorious failure to keep drugs out of prisons points to the futility of drug prohibition as a whole.
Italrish
Drug money is second only to illegal arms money floating through the U.S and British money laundering banks. They need illegal drugs and war for their offshore financial scams.
John Christopher
It’s not a failure. It’s a feature of the prison system. CO s make a lot of money this way.
Jelly Roll Thunder
I love that everyone on this show is saying “Oh I bet it’s only a one-off”, but if they were to spend 30 seconds looking into this they’d know this is actually widespread. How many news correspondents does it take to make an uneducated guess about things they clearly aren’t in a position to just “guess” about these things.
o77eh
The photocopy thing is new. I bet if they contacted a real journalist, the first thing he would say is, “did you follow the money?” To which they would reply, “no.” If they were honest.
After someone “followed the money,” they would find the Governors brother or nephew is being paid $50.00 per page of taxpayer money to photocopy inmate mail. That’s how all of these things pan out.
Jelly Roll Thunder
@o77eh I’m talking about the soaking of drugs into paper letters. That’s been going on for ages.
Roger Dodger
Yup; One of the Dwarf Stars of “The Willow” movie who I met 40 years ago in prison used to use/sell LSD (which is why he was there) and you could buy it in prison (UK Dorchester Prison [nice window views]); through him I was offered a part in the movie (until I shaved).
Dustan Droktwok
I thought this was standard. And I’m a progressive.
Gordon Stewart
When a person is sent to prison, they forfeit their rights to privacy as well as their freedom. Besides, a prisoner’s mail and phone conversations being monitored has been a standard operating procedure in correctional facilities for decades. File this under ‘ A problem that isn’t really a problem.’
Critical Mass
How is undermining a citizens civil rights not a problem? It is a big problem indeed.
Dustin Avant
Another problem is when tax payers have to spend more money for these companies to buy new equipment, management, training, storage…ect. any way to get unchecked government $
S & S Homesteading
This is a poor attempt of a news story
Margy Rowland
Of course the authorities should spy on all inmate mail, phone calls, and internet use. If they really wanted to do a proper job they’d use sniffer dogs. That might catch some corrupt jail employees too. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Sologrundy
These people for sure have never, or don’t know anyone in prison. 🤷🏽♂️
Roger Dodger
Yep; in the half-dozen+ UK prisons I was in, the staff would remove the Envelopes, because hiding LSD under the stamps was the most common way to import LSD.
NEETpride
As if Snowden didn’t prove this was already happening to everyone like 10 years ago
karrskarr
I still have my GF’s letters from jail in the 70’s, her ending lipstick kiss was very ‘colorful’! 😛
CharlieBrown
It’s no coincidence that both opioid epidemics that hit America have occurred when our armed forces were in the countries/regions with the largest poppy crops at the time.
r2dxhate
They have always read mail going in and out of jails and prisons.
Neal VanCauwenbergh
The guards find it more profitable when they can eliminate competition for drug distribution.
C T
He stifles a chuckle as he reads the lead in. Insulting and Clueless. This is def one way used to smuggle drugs. Can’t stop the drugs so just legalize. Asinine thinking
philsdon
There are fentanyl transdermal patches, so fentanyl can pass through the derma and the substance is so concentrated that handling might cause problems.
Hugh G Rection
Tripping on acid in prison seems highly unreccomendable.The odds of a bad trip seem farr too high.