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| Prisoners have found a new way of getting contraband behind bars: Drones |
| By theweek.com |
| Published: 04/23/2015 |
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The days of paying off guards and baking files into cakes are over: Now, contraband is being smuggled into U.S. prisons via drones. At the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina, security cameras picked up red lights late one night, and a guard went out to investigate. She saw a man running away into the forest, but it wasn't until later that a package with tobacco, a cellphone, and marijuana was found in the power lines, with a drone that crashed nearby. In the woods, prison officials discovered a campground with the drone's remote control and drugs. "It was a delivery system," Bryan P. Stirling, director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, told The New York Times. "They were sending in smaller amounts in repeated trips. They would put it on there, they would deliver it, someone inside would get it somehow, and they would send it back out and send more in." Read More. |
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