"Kelly, currently of Wolfe Crescent, Charlton, has been remanded in custody "
... with his asshole packed full of goodies
A 37-year-old man has pleaded guilty to plotting to smuggle contraband into a British prison using a drone. Daniel Kelly, of Amblecote Meadows in Grove Park when he was initially charged, was pinned with attempting to smuggle prohibited items, which according to police included mobile phones and cannabis, into HMP Swaleside on …
But if they passed out weed wouldn't you just have folks lining up to get in to prison? I mean things are bad enough when pensioners in Japan are breaking the law just to get a bed and meals. Do we really want pot heads doing the same thing?
But if they passed out weed wouldn't you just have folks lining up to get in to prison?
On the plus side, that would make the detection of drug crime much easier for the police, also letting the politicians pretend to have achieved something, and reduce the costs of those expensive trials as well. Unfortunately that last point means that the lawyers wouldn't allow it.
@Cynic
That might be one factor however your argument is also true of diazipam and other sleeping pills, by that logic we should just sedate them for the length of their sentence and then let them out.
Fact is, prison is there as punishment, it is not meant to be a pleasant experience, it needs to be unpleasant enough as to make it undesirable to return without crossing the line of being cruel.
Seeing as cannabis is NOT required to sustain your life/mental state and what with it being illegal, of course it is going to be banned in prisons.
@d3vy
Many things that prisoners do in prison is not necessary. TV, music, limited recreation, being permitted to socialise with staff and other inmates, having a reasonable variety of food and beverages etc.
These do not make prison pleasant, because they are all quite restricted, and the unpleasantness of any prison comes from the fact that the prisoner is locked within the establishment and does not enjoy anything like the freedoms of a non-prisoner. You would not enjoy a 5 star hotel if you knew that you were not permitted to leave.
The sad truth is that marijuana is a lot safer in prisons than the legal highs they've all taken to recently.
I guess the "legal" stuff doesn't show up in tests that affect your parole and privileges.
But then you might end up mad or brain damaged, no-one knows.
If they can make an exception to the non-smoking rule for prisons, why not dope also, would calm things down, offer time for reflection, take the cartels with their punishment beatings out of system, all good things.
Oh yeah, but half of them are in there for that in the first place.
(actually 4000 for all drug offences in 85000 total)
If they can make an exception to the non-smoking rule for prisons, why not dope also, would calm things down, offer time for reflection, take the cartels with their punishment beatings out of system, all good things.
Wait a minute... prisoners in the UK can smoke cigs? Really? Here in the States they all, for the most part, are now "smoke free". I guess if ever wanted to do porridge time, I'd go the UK to do the crime.
"I guess if ever wanted to do porridge time, I'd go the UK to do the crime."
That's a good idea. You'd probably still be young enough to appreciate the daylight when you got out too. We rarely apply 99 year sentences and multiple sentences are served concurrently rather than consecutively. You can even serve your 12 month driving ban while on a 5 year custodial sentence.
"I guess if ever wanted to do porridge time, I'd go the UK to do the crime."
Sorry to put a dampener on your plans, but given the differences in the size of the prison population of the UK (~150 prisoners per 100,000) and the US (~700 per 100,000), you're much less likely to be sent to prison in the UK. Sucks eh?
> prosecutor Dickon Reid told Maidstone Crown Court that “a fair amount of investigation” had gone into the prosecution
"Yes, I, Sergeant Williams and Constable Jenkins each needed to purchase a top of the range drone and practice flying it extensively before we came to the conclusion that it was indeed feasible to use a drone to smuggle contraband into the prison yard. This conclusion was backed up by our children who were able to scientifically repeat the experiment."
I have some friends retired and still serving at prisons and the DD's aren’t usually so high tech, cause a disturbance to distract the guards and throw it over the wall and sometimes on fire so it burns through the net.
But drones are being used to get illegal substances into prisons, some of the tech for taking a drone down is worth a look and would you call a bird of prey tech?