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The supreme court laid down a ruling that the hardass sheriff from Arizona can’t broadcast webcams from his jail. I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand there may be privacy issues for the inmates, on the other there may be saftey issues (protection of inmates through increased capability to detect criminal behavior within the prison walls).

Our prison systems are dispicable by any human standards of decency and put the US right up there as human rights violators. It is commonly accepted that the main punishment of going to jail is not incarceration itself, but gang rape, beatings, abuse & torture, exposure to drug trade and crime inside, getting diseases from rape, etc… And what do we do to stop it? Not much really, not yet.

Anyways, what’s up with this wanting to broadcast webcams from prison? My guess, and hopefully, it’s merely a deterrent issue. As posted in a previous entry, placing webcams in prisons to assist gaurds in monitoring criminal behavior of the criminals while they are incarcerated could be of great assistance in eliminating the human rights violoations and torture that occur in those institutions daily.

Apparently the prisoner’s rights groups fought to get these cams turned off and won. Maybe it was a privacy issue, but personally I’d think they’d want the safety issue of encouraging webcam coverage of every square inch of the facilities they are housed in.

I think the majority of the American population would be shocked to find out how many non-violent prisoners are housed with violent offenders and the type of abuse and torture they endure. You say ’so what’ until it’s a family member of yours… I know someone that works in the system, and the stories they tell would make even the most stoic person nauseous.

Anyways, this is a way morbid topic, the full article is listed on our webcam news archive page.

It’s worth a read I guess.

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