#prisontech — Public Fediverse posts

🚨 Breaking news: Ohio #inmates have outsmarted the #guards by assembling high-tech computers from scraps and storing them in the ceiling. Apparently, breaking out of prison is so last decade; now it's all about getting that sweet Windows screensaver access! 🖥️🙄 #PrisonTechRevolution
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39576394 #PrisonTech #Revolution #Outsmart #HighTech #Hacks #WindowsScreensaver #HackerNews #ngated

🚨 Breaking news: Ohio #inmates have outsmarted the #guards by assembling high-tech computers from scraps and storing them in the ceiling. Apparently, breaking out of prison is so last decade; now it's all about getting that sweet Windows screensaver access! 🖥️🙄 #PrisonTechRevolution
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39576394 #PrisonTech #Revolution #Outsmart #HighTech #Hacks #WindowsScreensaver #HackerNews #ngated

🚨 Breaking news: Ohio #inmates have outsmarted the #guards by assembling high-tech computers from scraps and storing them in the ceiling. Apparently, breaking out of prison is so last decade; now it's all about getting that sweet Windows screensaver access! 🖥️🙄 #PrisonTechRevolution
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39576394 #PrisonTech #Revolution #Outsmart #HighTech #Hacks #WindowsScreensaver #HackerNews #ngated

🚨 Breaking news: Ohio #inmates have outsmarted the #guards by assembling high-tech computers from scraps and storing them in the ceiling. Apparently, breaking out of prison is so last decade; now it's all about getting that sweet Windows screensaver access! 🖥️🙄 #PrisonTechRevolution
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39576394 #PrisonTech #Revolution #Outsmart #HighTech #Hacks #WindowsScreensaver #HackerNews #ngated

🚨 Breaking news: Ohio #inmates have outsmarted the #guards by assembling high-tech computers from scraps and storing them in the ceiling. Apparently, breaking out of prison is so last decade; now it's all about getting that sweet Windows screensaver access! 🖥️🙄 #PrisonTechRevolution
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39576394 #PrisonTech #Revolution #Outsmart #HighTech #Hacks #WindowsScreensaver #HackerNews #ngated

@neauoire a recent video (#PrisonTech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PfsndsihY) by #Techmoan about #clearCase electronics made for #prison systems, makes me wonder if this model was also designed with that in mind.

If you see a piece of #tech with a #clearCase, it might just be that it was designed as #prisonTech, rather than being a fancy design choice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PfsndsihY

Why? Because otherwise it'd be easier to hide contraband in it...

Not only that, but apparently #cassetteTapes for a long time were the only allowed #music medium in the US penitentiary system.

The #US #prison system: for many years the driving force behind #cassette #tapes when 'regular' consumer interest had dropped off?

#USA #Prisons #PrisonTech: "Beware of geeks bearing gifts. When prison-tech companies started offering "free" tablets to America's vast army of prisoners, it set off alarm-bells for prison reform advocates – but not for the law-enforcement agencies that manage the great American carceral enterprise.

The pitch from these prison-tech companies was that they could cut the costs of locking people up while making jails and prisons safer. Hell, they'd even make life better for prisoners. And they'd do it for free!

These prison tablets would give every prisoner their own phone and their own video-conferencing terminal. They'd supply email, of course, and all the world's books, music, movies and games. Prisoners could maintain connections with the outside world, from family to continuing education. Sounds too good to be true, huh?

Here's the catch: all of these services are blisteringly expensive. Prisoners are accustomed to being gouged on phone calls – for years, prisons have done deals with private telcos that charge a fortune for prisoners' calls and split the take with prison administrators – but even by those standards, the calls you make on a tablet are still a ripoff." https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/02/captive-customers/#guillotine-watch

#USA #Prisons #PrisonTech #Telcos: "Prisoners, asylum seekers, drug addicts and other marginalized people are the involuntary early adopters of every form of disciplinary technology. They are the leading indicators of the ways that technology will be ruining your life in the future. They are the harbingers of all our technological doom.

Which brings me to Minnesota.

Minnesota is one of the first states make prison phone-calls free. This is a big deal, because prison phone-calls are a big business. Prisoners are literally a captive audience, and the telecommunications sector is populated by sociopaths, bred and trained to spot and exploit abusive monopoly opportunities. As states across America locked up more and more people for longer and longer terms, the cost of operating prisons skyrocketed, even as states slashed taxes on the rich and turned a blind eye to tax evasion.

This presented telco predators with an unbeatable opportunity: they approached state prison operators and offered them a bargain: "Let us take over the telephone service to your carceral facility and we will levy eye-watering per-minute charges on the most desperate people in the world. Their families – struggling with one breadwinner behind bars – will find the money to pay this ransom, and we'll split the profits with you, the cash-strapped, incarceration-happy state government."

This was the opening salvo, and it turned into a fantastic little money-spinner. Prison telco companies and state prison operators were the public-private partnership from hell. Prison-tech companies openly funneled money to state coffers in the form of kickbacks, even as they secretly bribed prison officials to let them gouge their inmates and inmates' families:"

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/14/minnesota-nice/#shitty-technology-adoption-curve

Of course I support #TheBezzle #Crowdfunding by @pluralistic - which Audible will not sell as an #audiobook because of #DRM BS. #PrisonTech, #DotBomb #Enshittification and the same Martin Hench I loved in the previous book, #RedTeamBlues that you can bundle with this pledge, if you missed it.

The #ShittyTechnologyAdoptionCurve Has a Business Model

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-shitty-tech-adoption-curve-has-a-business-model-ee025ad60951

#PrisonTech #FultonCounty #DisciplinaryTechnology

Putting someone in solitary confinement increases their chances of committing another crime by 15-25% after release. The digital prison doesn't end when the sentence does.

#prisontech #criminaljustice

https://hecknews.com/solitary-confinement-digital-prison-recidivism-study

#USA #Prisons #PrisonTech: "Beware of geeks bearing gifts. When prison-tech companies started offering "free" tablets to America's vast army of prisoners, it set off alarm-bells for prison reform advocates – but not for the law-enforcement agencies that manage the great American carceral enterprise.

The pitch from these prison-tech companies was that they could cut the costs of locking people up while making jails and prisons safer. Hell, they'd even make life better for prisoners. And they'd do it for free!

These prison tablets would give every prisoner their own phone and their own video-conferencing terminal. They'd supply email, of course, and all the world's books, music, movies and games. Prisoners could maintain connections with the outside world, from family to continuing education. Sounds too good to be true, huh?

Here's the catch: all of these services are blisteringly expensive. Prisoners are accustomed to being gouged on phone calls – for years, prisons have done deals with private telcos that charge a fortune for prisoners' calls and split the take with prison administrators – but even by those standards, the calls you make on a tablet are still a ripoff." https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/02/captive-customers/#guillotine-watch

#USA #Prisons #PrisonTech: "Beware of geeks bearing gifts. When prison-tech companies started offering "free" tablets to America's vast army of prisoners, it set off alarm-bells for prison reform advocates – but not for the law-enforcement agencies that manage the great American carceral enterprise.

The pitch from these prison-tech companies was that they could cut the costs of locking people up while making jails and prisons safer. Hell, they'd even make life better for prisoners. And they'd do it for free!

These prison tablets would give every prisoner their own phone and their own video-conferencing terminal. They'd supply email, of course, and all the world's books, music, movies and games. Prisoners could maintain connections with the outside world, from family to continuing education. Sounds too good to be true, huh?

Here's the catch: all of these services are blisteringly expensive. Prisoners are accustomed to being gouged on phone calls – for years, prisons have done deals with private telcos that charge a fortune for prisoners' calls and split the take with prison administrators – but even by those standards, the calls you make on a tablet are still a ripoff." https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/02/captive-customers/#guillotine-watch

#USA #Prisons #PrisonTech: "Beware of geeks bearing gifts. When prison-tech companies started offering "free" tablets to America's vast army of prisoners, it set off alarm-bells for prison reform advocates – but not for the law-enforcement agencies that manage the great American carceral enterprise.

The pitch from these prison-tech companies was that they could cut the costs of locking people up while making jails and prisons safer. Hell, they'd even make life better for prisoners. And they'd do it for free!

These prison tablets would give every prisoner their own phone and their own video-conferencing terminal. They'd supply email, of course, and all the world's books, music, movies and games. Prisoners could maintain connections with the outside world, from family to continuing education. Sounds too good to be true, huh?

Here's the catch: all of these services are blisteringly expensive. Prisoners are accustomed to being gouged on phone calls – for years, prisons have done deals with private telcos that charge a fortune for prisoners' calls and split the take with prison administrators – but even by those standards, the calls you make on a tablet are still a ripoff." https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/02/captive-customers/#guillotine-watch

#USA #Prisons #PrisonTech: "Beware of geeks bearing gifts. When prison-tech companies started offering "free" tablets to America's vast army of prisoners, it set off alarm-bells for prison reform advocates – but not for the law-enforcement agencies that manage the great American carceral enterprise.

The pitch from these prison-tech companies was that they could cut the costs of locking people up while making jails and prisons safer. Hell, they'd even make life better for prisoners. And they'd do it for free!

These prison tablets would give every prisoner their own phone and their own video-conferencing terminal. They'd supply email, of course, and all the world's books, music, movies and games. Prisoners could maintain connections with the outside world, from family to continuing education. Sounds too good to be true, huh?

Here's the catch: all of these services are blisteringly expensive. Prisoners are accustomed to being gouged on phone calls – for years, prisons have done deals with private telcos that charge a fortune for prisoners' calls and split the take with prison administrators – but even by those standards, the calls you make on a tablet are still a ripoff." https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/02/captive-customers/#guillotine-watch

#USA #Prisons #PrisonTech #Telcos: "Prisoners, asylum seekers, drug addicts and other marginalized people are the involuntary early adopters of every form of disciplinary technology. They are the leading indicators of the ways that technology will be ruining your life in the future. They are the harbingers of all our technological doom.

Which brings me to Minnesota.

Minnesota is one of the first states make prison phone-calls free. This is a big deal, because prison phone-calls are a big business. Prisoners are literally a captive audience, and the telecommunications sector is populated by sociopaths, bred and trained to spot and exploit abusive monopoly opportunities. As states across America locked up more and more people for longer and longer terms, the cost of operating prisons skyrocketed, even as states slashed taxes on the rich and turned a blind eye to tax evasion.

This presented telco predators with an unbeatable opportunity: they approached state prison operators and offered them a bargain: "Let us take over the telephone service to your carceral facility and we will levy eye-watering per-minute charges on the most desperate people in the world. Their families – struggling with one breadwinner behind bars – will find the money to pay this ransom, and we'll split the profits with you, the cash-strapped, incarceration-happy state government."

This was the opening salvo, and it turned into a fantastic little money-spinner. Prison telco companies and state prison operators were the public-private partnership from hell. Prison-tech companies openly funneled money to state coffers in the form of kickbacks, even as they secretly bribed prison officials to let them gouge their inmates and inmates' families:"

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/14/minnesota-nice/#shitty-technology-adoption-curve

#USA #Prisons #PrisonTech #Telcos: "Prisoners, asylum seekers, drug addicts and other marginalized people are the involuntary early adopters of every form of disciplinary technology. They are the leading indicators of the ways that technology will be ruining your life in the future. They are the harbingers of all our technological doom.

Which brings me to Minnesota.

Minnesota is one of the first states make prison phone-calls free. This is a big deal, because prison phone-calls are a big business. Prisoners are literally a captive audience, and the telecommunications sector is populated by sociopaths, bred and trained to spot and exploit abusive monopoly opportunities. As states across America locked up more and more people for longer and longer terms, the cost of operating prisons skyrocketed, even as states slashed taxes on the rich and turned a blind eye to tax evasion.

This presented telco predators with an unbeatable opportunity: they approached state prison operators and offered them a bargain: "Let us take over the telephone service to your carceral facility and we will levy eye-watering per-minute charges on the most desperate people in the world. Their families – struggling with one breadwinner behind bars – will find the money to pay this ransom, and we'll split the profits with you, the cash-strapped, incarceration-happy state government."

This was the opening salvo, and it turned into a fantastic little money-spinner. Prison telco companies and state prison operators were the public-private partnership from hell. Prison-tech companies openly funneled money to state coffers in the form of kickbacks, even as they secretly bribed prison officials to let them gouge their inmates and inmates' families:"

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/14/minnesota-nice/#shitty-technology-adoption-curve

#USA #Prisons #PrisonTech #Telcos: "Prisoners, asylum seekers, drug addicts and other marginalized people are the involuntary early adopters of every form of disciplinary technology. They are the leading indicators of the ways that technology will be ruining your life in the future. They are the harbingers of all our technological doom.

Which brings me to Minnesota.

Minnesota is one of the first states make prison phone-calls free. This is a big deal, because prison phone-calls are a big business. Prisoners are literally a captive audience, and the telecommunications sector is populated by sociopaths, bred and trained to spot and exploit abusive monopoly opportunities. As states across America locked up more and more people for longer and longer terms, the cost of operating prisons skyrocketed, even as states slashed taxes on the rich and turned a blind eye to tax evasion.

This presented telco predators with an unbeatable opportunity: they approached state prison operators and offered them a bargain: "Let us take over the telephone service to your carceral facility and we will levy eye-watering per-minute charges on the most desperate people in the world. Their families – struggling with one breadwinner behind bars – will find the money to pay this ransom, and we'll split the profits with you, the cash-strapped, incarceration-happy state government."

This was the opening salvo, and it turned into a fantastic little money-spinner. Prison telco companies and state prison operators were the public-private partnership from hell. Prison-tech companies openly funneled money to state coffers in the form of kickbacks, even as they secretly bribed prison officials to let them gouge their inmates and inmates' families:"

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/14/minnesota-nice/#shitty-technology-adoption-curve

#USA #Prisons #PrisonTech #Telcos: "Prisoners, asylum seekers, drug addicts and other marginalized people are the involuntary early adopters of every form of disciplinary technology. They are the leading indicators of the ways that technology will be ruining your life in the future. They are the harbingers of all our technological doom.

Which brings me to Minnesota.

Minnesota is one of the first states make prison phone-calls free. This is a big deal, because prison phone-calls are a big business. Prisoners are literally a captive audience, and the telecommunications sector is populated by sociopaths, bred and trained to spot and exploit abusive monopoly opportunities. As states across America locked up more and more people for longer and longer terms, the cost of operating prisons skyrocketed, even as states slashed taxes on the rich and turned a blind eye to tax evasion.

This presented telco predators with an unbeatable opportunity: they approached state prison operators and offered them a bargain: "Let us take over the telephone service to your carceral facility and we will levy eye-watering per-minute charges on the most desperate people in the world. Their families – struggling with one breadwinner behind bars – will find the money to pay this ransom, and we'll split the profits with you, the cash-strapped, incarceration-happy state government."

This was the opening salvo, and it turned into a fantastic little money-spinner. Prison telco companies and state prison operators were the public-private partnership from hell. Prison-tech companies openly funneled money to state coffers in the form of kickbacks, even as they secretly bribed prison officials to let them gouge their inmates and inmates' families:"

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/14/minnesota-nice/#shitty-technology-adoption-curve

Of course I support #TheBezzle #Crowdfunding by @pluralistic - which Audible will not sell as an #audiobook because of #DRM BS. #PrisonTech, #DotBomb #Enshittification and the same Martin Hench I loved in the previous book, #RedTeamBlues that you can bundle with this pledge, if you missed it.

Of course I support #TheBezzle #Crowdfunding by @pluralistic - which Audible will not sell as an #audiobook because of #DRM BS. #PrisonTech, #DotBomb #Enshittification and the same Martin Hench I loved in the previous book, #RedTeamBlues that you can bundle with this pledge, if you missed it.

Of course I support #TheBezzle #Crowdfunding by @pluralistic - which Audible will not sell as an #audiobook because of #DRM BS. #PrisonTech, #DotBomb #Enshittification and the same Martin Hench I loved in the previous book, #RedTeamBlues that you can bundle with this pledge, if you missed it.

Of course I support #TheBezzle #Crowdfunding by @pluralistic - which Audible will not sell as an #audiobook because of #DRM BS. #PrisonTech, #DotBomb #Enshittification and the same Martin Hench I loved in the previous book, #RedTeamBlues that you can bundle with this pledge, if you missed it.

The #ShittyTechnologyAdoptionCurve Has a Business Model

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-shitty-tech-adoption-curve-has-a-business-model-ee025ad60951

#PrisonTech #FultonCounty #DisciplinaryTechnology

The #ShittyTechnologyAdoptionCurve Has a Business Model

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-shitty-tech-adoption-curve-has-a-business-model-ee025ad60951

#PrisonTech #FultonCounty #DisciplinaryTechnology

The #ShittyTechnologyAdoptionCurve Has a Business Model

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-shitty-tech-adoption-curve-has-a-business-model-ee025ad60951

#PrisonTech #FultonCounty #DisciplinaryTechnology

The #ShittyTechnologyAdoptionCurve Has a Business Model

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-shitty-tech-adoption-curve-has-a-business-model-ee025ad60951

#PrisonTech #FultonCounty #DisciplinaryTechnology

@neauoire a recent video (#PrisonTech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PfsndsihY) by #Techmoan about #clearCase electronics made for #prison systems, makes me wonder if this model was also designed with that in mind.

If you see a piece of #tech with a #clearCase, it might just be that it was designed as #prisonTech, rather than being a fancy design choice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PfsndsihY

Why? Because otherwise it'd be easier to hide contraband in it...

Not only that, but apparently #cassetteTapes for a long time were the only allowed #music medium in the US penitentiary system.

The #US #prison system: for many years the driving force behind #cassette #tapes when 'regular' consumer interest had dropped off?