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| Ohio Wants Drones to Constantly Monitor Its Prison Grounds |
| By motherboard.vice.com- Jason Koebler |
| Published: 06/04/2014 |
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Prison yards have spotlights and surveillance towers and barbed wire fences and security cameras to keep prisoners in—and soon, they might have drones too. Corrections officials in Ohio are looking into using drones to persistently monitor prison grounds in the state. Of all the places for persistent surveillance to occur, prison is probably the best—there's already all of those previously-mentioned capabilities—but the thought of having a drone constantly hovering over prisons just seems a little too far, no? In any case, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction is at least looking into the idea: Tristan Navera of the Dayton Business Journal reports that prison officials attended a drone demonstration on Monday, with the idea of using unmanned aircraft to keep contraband out of the prison and to keep an eye on any prisoners trying to escape. Read More. |
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