prison
Online

California Booting Inmates Off Facebook

If there’s anything worse than being in a California state correctional facility, it’s not being able to check if you’ve been tagged in any photos lately. This dual fate of horror is now a reality for CA inmates, NBC reports.

News

Hackers Could Help Prisoners Escape

Another scary finding from the DefCon hackers’ conference: Prisoners could escape from their jails, if hackers decided to lend a hand and hack into the prison’s security systems.

August 1, 2011
News

Prison Inmate Bails Himself Out Of Jail With Just A Phone

Well, it’s not exactly hacking your way out of prison, but it still worked. Ingenious Florida jailbird Larry Stone found a little glitch in his prison’s phone system that let him scam enough money to post bail. Oh, Florida.

June 19, 2011
Entertainment

Now You Can Watch TV Like A Criminal

While this might have the guts an old RCA 13″ TV, it’s why you can see said guts that makes it so special. Because it’s for prisoners. And everyone wants to watch TV like a prisoner, right?

May 27, 2011
Computing

Computer Error Released 450 Prisoners With ‘High Risk Of Violence’

Computer system errors accidentally released more than 450 inmates with “a high risk of violence” from California prisons. What might be even worse is that no attempt has been made to return any of them back to prison.

April 26, 2011
News

Taliban Prison Breakers Interviewed

The Daily Beast has interviewed two of the men freed in the prison break we covered earlier today. One interviewee, Mullah Asadullah Akhund, described the escape in detail, while an anonymous commander was quoted as saying, “We are poor in technology, but with the help of All Mighty Allah we embarrassed the enemy with all its technology and weapons.”

Gadgets

A Brief History Of Strange Prison Escape Tools

The recent Taliban prison escape was undeniably crafty. But especially noteworthy was the creation of the 320m tunnel without power tools, which would have been too noisy. Here are six other great escapes, and the gear that made them possible.

News

500 Taliban Prisoners Escape Through Underground Tunnel

In their biggest prison break since 2008, nearly 500 Afghani prisoners (mostly Taliban members) escaped through an underground tunnel, dug from the outside. Now the US military is searching high and low, hoping to corral the escapees back in. The crazy thing is that they built this long tunnel using nothing but basic tools – no machinery.

March 9, 2011
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.

March 4, 2011
Geek Out

Freed Spam King Sentenced To An Email Hell Worse Than Prison

Fathers, lock up your daughters. Sysadmins, tighten your email filters. The societal menace dubbed the “Spam King” is back on the streets. A freed man, responsible for 10 trillion unwanted messages during his reign of terror. Has he reformed? Hard to say.

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