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Prison video visitation system exposed calls between inmates and lawyers
LEGO Maximum Security Prison Puts Your Minifigs Behind Bars
LEGO models can represent all kinds of different things, both imaginary and real. But this particular LEGO design takes on one of the more unpleasant sides of the real world – the seamy underbelly of society that is prison life.
Designed by LEGO fan GabKremo, this impressive maximum security prison model uses roughly 3000 bricks placed onto a 32×32 base panel. Outside, it’s got lots of neat details like a prison yard with barbed wire fencing, a prison transport bus, and a guard tower. The orange-jumpsuited minifigs even wear teensy handcuffs.
The interior is just as impressive, featuring cramped jail cells for its minifig inmates, a prison gym, kitchen, cafeteria, infirmary, and even a weapon armory for the guards. Naturally, all of the doors are made out of bars.
The subject matter of this model might not be the most kid-friendly LEGO design ever, but it’s still a really impressive build. If you’d like to see LEGO put this into production, show your support by casting your vote over on LEGO Ideas.
Scientist who edited babies’ genes sentenced to three years in prison
Last year, a Stanford-trained scientist stunned the world by revealing that he had created the first genetically-edited babies using the CRISPR/Cas9 tool. Now, He Jiankui and two of his associates have been sentenced to three years in prison followin...
Google helped create a prison data map to shape reform policy
Most people in the US agree that the country needs to reform its criminal justice system. In 2017, for instance, a poll conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union found that 71 percent of Americans said it was important for the country to reduce...
Silk Road 2 founder sentenced five years after the site was shut down
It's been nearly five years since the feds shut down Silk Road 2. But its founder is only now being sentenced to prison. According to Motherboard, Thomas White, also known as Dread Pirate Roberts 2 (DPR2) plead guilty to drug trafficking, money laund...
Spain halts plans to use electric shock treatment on violent inmates
Spain is putting on hold a scientific investigation that involved zapping prisoners' brains with electricity to curb violent urges. A pilot study saw the technique -- known as transcranial direct current stimulation, or tDCS -- carried out on 41 viol...
Hong Kong is testing high-tech monitoring systems for ‘smart’ prisons
Prisons in Hong Kong are testing a variety of high-tech services that will allow correctional facilities to better track inmates, according to the South China Morning Post. The city's Commissioner of Correctional Services, Danny Woo Ying-min, claimed...
US prisons are reportedly creating ‘voice print’ databases
Prisons across the United States are reportedly building biometric databases that include voice recordings of incarcerated people, according to The Intercept. The report cites contracting documents for the state of New York's prison system, as well a...
Senator Wyden wants to jail execs who don’t protect consumer data
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) released a draft the Consumer Data Protection Act, which would create new protections for consumer information and strict punishments for those found to be abusing user data. The proposed bill would send senior executives to jai...