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A device designed to control unruly inmates by blasting them with a beam of intense energy that causes a burning sensation is drawing heat from civil rights groups who fear it could cause serious injury and is "tantamount to torture."
The mechanism, known as an "Assault Intervention Device," is a stripped-down version of a military gadget that sends highly focused beams of energy at people and makes them feel as though they are burning. The Los Angeles County sheriff's department plans to install the device by Labor Day, making it the first time in the world the technology has been deployed in such a capacity.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California criticized Sheriff Lee Baca's decision in a letter sent Thursday, saying that the technology amounts to a ray gun at a county jail. The 4-feet-tall weapon, which looks like a cross between a robot and a satellite radar, will be mounted on the ceiling and can swivel.
Until the mid 1800s, prisons, at least in England, were places of punishment only, with no concept of rehabilitation for the prisoners. One of the forms of punishment was to crank a handle attached to a large wooden box. The cranking did nothing, other than turn a counter. The prisoner had to do 10,000 turns in 8 hours, equivalent to one every 3 seconds or so. As an extra punishment a warder could tighten a screw to make turning more difficult. Warders came to be known as 'screws'. By inference, the prisoner was 'screwed' and, although 'screw' remained within the prison environment, eventually 'to be screwed' became widespread.
Originally posted by bane9907
How do you feel about using this on animals? is it acceptable to you?
Originally posted by slugger9787
reply to post by UmbraSumus
I do not believe the statistics, thank you.
They are overinflated, just like the perils this new machine is going to produce.
Originally posted by slugger9787
i worked in prisons for fifteen years.
Whatever advantage and appliance the custody officers employ rto maintain custody, control, safety and security, i say more power to them.
What you have in a prison see is a small sized city of the worst behaved people in a particular state.
The officer to inmate ratio is 200 to 1.
The concentration of angry, irresponsible, hateful, stupid, mean, petty, disrespectful, psychotic, insane, aberrant people is beyond understanding.
Lots of prisoners do not speak the same language as the officers-----but a language everyone on earth understands is
--- PAIN---
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i worked in prisons for fifteen years.
The concentration of angry, irresponsible, hateful, stupid, mean, petty, disrespectful, psychotic, insane, aberrant people is beyond understanding.
Lots of prisoners do not speak the same language as the officers-----but a language everyone on earth understands is --- PAIN---
Originally posted by UmbraSumus
American prisons produce 100% of all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet proof vests, .
93% of domestically used paints,
36% of home appliances,
21% of office furniture, which allows America to compete with factories in Mexico.
You get solitary confinement if you refuse to work! .
Thus America has successfully reinvented the slave trade.