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rotciv KOTHRT Prince
Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 1482 Location: USA
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:42 pm Post subject: Prison gives new meaning to cell phone |
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Prison gives new meaning to cell phone
Mobile phones for lags
A BRITISH prison, Lowdham Grange – run by Serco – will be providing all inmates with the use of a mobile phone within their cells. They'll have to pay for the airtime, though.
The idea is justified on the grounds that prisoners normally have to queue for ages to use the public telephones. If they have their own phones they can call loved ones at times of need.
Critics say, of course, that providing such 'luxuries' to prisoners negates the whole point of imprisonment. According to the Mail on Sunday prisons should be a place "that people do not want to go back to."
One ex-offender whom the INQ consulted claimed that prisoners have been smuggling mobile phones inside for ages. The frightening thing is that they normally hide them up their backsides.
It brought tears to our eyes to learn that this method of smuggling applied to the phone charger too.
"The only difference this will make is that prisoners wouldn't be afraid to receive calls," he told the INQ. "You always turned the phone off straight after you'd used it because if the phone rang then the [wardens] would know you had it."
_________________ Sir Rotvic Knight of the Halfround Table
MAD, MAD I tell you.They're all MAD.
I am the only sane one here, my Doctor told me I was cured after the shock treatments. Big Brother Is Aways Watching.
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Sir Hamster of Elderberry KWSN ArchBishop
Joined: 20 May 2002 Posts: 5117 Location: Beer City, Cheese Quadrant
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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I'll think of this the next time I get some a**hole on the phone.
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KWSN Sir CADCAM hoser
Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 7498 Location: South of Nunavuut
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | The frightening thing is that they normally hide them up their backsides. |
!?!?!? _________________ KWSN Sir CADCAM of the Wooden Rabbit
"Semper In Excrementa" "Hominem Iniocosum Non Diffidite"
"Cîam en des sterko" "Havi ne malesperi personoj kiu havi ne kompreno humuro"
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Sir Robin Duke
Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Posts: 376 Location: Guelph, First Shrubbery On The Right
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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KWSN Sir CADCAM wrote: | Quote: | The frightening thing is that they normally hide them up their backsides. |
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Now, That would hurt.............. Where does the antenna go? _________________ We're knights of the round table, we dance whene're we're able.
We do routines, and chorus scenes, and footwork imp-e-cable;
We dine well here in Camelot, we eat ham and jam and spamalot.
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Sir Hamster of Elderberry KWSN ArchBishop
Joined: 20 May 2002 Posts: 5117 Location: Beer City, Cheese Quadrant
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:53 am Post subject: |
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Sir Robin wrote: |
Now, That would hurt.............. Where does the antenna go? |
Oh, there's plenty of room in there. You could even stretch that springy cord out to it's limit, and not reach the small intestine.
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