http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Prisoner gets 40 more years for cellphone possession http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/its nothing against your citizens, its just so awful to see that a country with "the bomb" has politics that do things like this.
We are just affraid that the big red button in the oval office one day will be pushed, because some european politician told bush to go f*ck himself.]]>May 1st 2006 1:17PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/
Reminds me of lyrics from Les Mis: "5 years because you stole a loaf of bread. 14 more because you tried to run."
]]>May 1st 2006 1:34PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/May 1st 2006 2:18PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/That's fine - keep looking down your Eurosnob nose at us. Were still here scratching our heads about the French govt telling Apple to open their DRM. If they don't like the closed iPod ecosystem, then simply don't buy the stupid thing. Plenty of stupid people on both sides, but you obviously have a self-esteem problem...]]>May 1st 2006 2:32PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/
Has anyone ever thought that maybe there was a reason that possession of a cellular phone was given such status? Maybe the fact that it could be used for planning some other things?

Why would a prisoner have a legitmate use for a cell phone?

I'm not a prison warden or anything, so I don't know how prisons work. Maybe a warden or someone who works in a prison can help us out here.

Think before you speak, guys.]]>May 1st 2006 3:13PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/May 1st 2006 3:13PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/Your comments have little, if not nothing, to do with the story and you haven't even justified your argument. You do look like a snob based on your comments, though i don't entirely disagree with you.

i think tracy hit the nail on the head: the punishment for a cell is greater than his original sentence for stealing a car.]]>May 1st 2006 3:20PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/May 1st 2006 3:24PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/May 1st 2006 3:31PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/All mail is read before it is mailed, and inbound mail is checked also. A few years ago, LSD & acid blotters were being sent into jails by soaking greeting cards etc in the solution, letting them dry and passing them into the jail. The recepiant would then cut up tiny squares and sell it on the inside.
BIG profit!
The only reason I know such things is that I've worked in law enforcement for over 20 years.
They have nothing but time on their hands to think up
new ways to beat the system. It's a never ending battle.
]]>May 1st 2006 3:32PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/May 1st 2006 3:38PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/My point was that both laws are seemingly silly. Plenty of political nonsense on both sides of the pond. And yes, "europeans dislike or laugh about americans" smacks of elitism. Definitely sounds like a self-esteem problem to me...]]>May 1st 2006 5:08PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/
Just pointing out that although this may not seem to affect anyone outside of texas, anything that america does affects the rest of the world too. ]]>May 1st 2006 6:21PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/May 1st 2006 11:21PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/lawyers....a good start ;)
I think the world wide stress level would go down if they popped a nuke right over the globe...the EMP would knock everything with a chip offline and get us back to knowing our neighbors LOL...]]>May 1st 2006 11:29PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/
sounds like someone has a real inferiority complex. You alsoyou ignorance. You cant criticize the US (by which i assume you mean the gov) and not its citizens. the citizens are the government you moron. Everyone running the government was put there by citizens. There are elections at local levels for almost every post from sewage collector to sherrif. So what you meant to say was you hate americans. doesnt sound so great when you put it that way now does it?]]>May 2nd 2006 9:20AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/05/01/prisoner-gets-40-more-years-for-cellphone-possession/
I disagree with Keith's comment that we put people in jail to "isolate" them from society. That does no good. We put them in jail to protect US from them, AND as punishment. But I don't think isolating them is punishment; it's more like sending them to private school with really screwed up teachers. If the intent is ever to return them to society, we want them to see some example of how us normal people actually live.

As I implied, the punishment should fit the crime. That means I think possession of a cell phone should be a small penalty. But it also means I think the death penalty should be enforced more. (I don't want to be accused of being a hypocrite.)

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Furthermore, a prisoner with a cell phone is able "to conduct his business affairs" without hindrance or monitoring. That is why the Bureau of Prisons has the following regulation:

Institutional Supplement No. PHL 5267.07 of 07 AUG 2003 on Visiting Regulations, Paragraph 22 at Page 18 (http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/phl/PHL_visit_hours.pdf ) that prohibits cellular telephones in the Visiting Room of a Federal prison.

You folk's are right that it would be cheaper to the tax payers to install jammers instead of lodging an inmate for another forty years. MUCH CHEAPER!!!!

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