Geek Out

Thieves Break Into Prison To Steal A TV

Most sane people, like you and me, do all we can to avoid prison. Not these idiots in New Zealand though, who broke into prison to steal a 50-inch plasma TV.


January 19, 2011
Mobile

Prisoners Hacking PlayStations For Charging Mobile Phones

Honestly, I’m beginning to think prisoners have been receiving some sneaky electricians’ training, such is the quality of rewiring skills they possess. From rewiring PlayStations into tattoo guns, Scottish crims have gone a step further down the sparky route.


December 28, 2010
News

Man Faces Five Years In Jail—For Reading Wife’s Emails

This case is a bit Jerry Springer, but interesting nonetheless. Rochester Hills man Leon Walker has been charged with unlawfully reading his wife’s emails—which showed she was having an affair with her violent second husband.


December 14, 2010
Mobile

Prisoners Use Smuggled Mobile Phones To Organise Protest

The worry over allowing prison inmates the use of mobile phones is usually that they’ll call in murder jobs on the outside or fashion an old StarTAC into a shank. But prisons across the US state of Georgia employed contraband phones for civil disobedience.


December 2, 2010
Online

Convicted Murderer Posts Prison Party Pics On Facebook

Justin Walker is serving a 30-year sentence for the killing of an Oklahoma Sheriff. “Jus N” has a Facebook page. Also, apparently, a Blackberry, a bong, a stash of weed, knives, some booze and other goodies inside his jail cell.


November 14, 2010
Online

This Guy Went To Jail Because He Posted Naked Pictures Of His Ex-Girlfriend On Facebook

This guy, Joshua Ashby, is in prison right now. Why? Because in what the judge called an “irresponsible drunken rage”, Joshy posted naked pictures of his ex-girlfriend on Facebook after they broke up.


October 6, 2010

Lil Wayne’s iPod Lands Him A Month In Solitary Confinement

Lil Wayne’s only got a month left on his eight-month stint at Riker’s, but he’s going to be spending most of it by his lonesome self. When guards found the rapper’s contraband iPod, charger and headphones, they sent him straight to solitary.


August 24, 2010

US Jail To Fire LASERS At Violent Prisoners

It’s a non-lethal laser as you probably guessed, but nonetheless, the Assault Intervention Device (measuring 2.2m in height) causes some serious heat when shot at an escapee or fighty prisoner.


August 14, 2010
Gadgets

How Ankle Monitors Could Replace Prisons

“Traditional prison,” writes Graeme Wood in this month’s Atlantic, “has become more or less synonymous with failed prison.” One radical solution: scale back traditional prisons in favour of sophisticated monitoring devices. And it’s actually not as radical as it sounds.


May 24, 2010
Gadgets

UK Prisoner Tattooing Jail Buddies With Hacked PlayStation Tattoo Gun

PlayStations are great. You can play games on them, and if you’ve got a PS3 you can also watch Blu-rays and surf the internet. If you happened to be in a UK jail, you could even get inked by one.