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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.