Prisoners Control Drug Traffic from jail

The cellular phones in Prison

Prison Break impressed many people.  The fictional series was one of the most successful television series of all time because of the originality of the topic and the psychology of the primary characters, especially Michael Scofield, who incarnates a brilliant person that sacrifices everything to save his brother, Lincoln, from prison.  For almost four years, Fox produced the series and one of the most interesting seasons, for the subject matter of this article, was the third one.  In a high security prison in Panama, the boss of the gang that controls everything, the idiosyncratic Sona, possesses the only form of communication with the outside world: a cell phone.  This grants him great power over everyone else. He communicates with his drug dealers in the city, including contact with prostitutes that offer their services in the prison. Scofield tries, at some moment, to rob the cell phone because he needed to send a message to his brother and he was about to be surprised.  Probably, the screenwriters of “Prison Break” were influenced by various real stories in order to recreate this specific situation. And up to now, it’s all fiction. 
In the real world, in an interconnected world, where the cell phone networks reach everywhere, it was only a matter of time until they also reached the prisons and the reality surpasses, in many cases, fiction.  The bosses of the incarcerated gangs in Latin American and Caribbean detention centers control drug traffic from behind bars, communicating with each gang members by cell phone.  Inmates try, by all means (some of which are ingenious), to introduce cell phone to maintain contact with the outside world.  Drugs, prostitution, and violence are problems that affect today’s society and can not even be stopped by putting criminals behind bars – then, what’s to be done? Communication, without a doubt, is one of the principal tools that today’s humanity has, but when this is not used for good, then it needs to be stopped.  However, each time it becomes more difficult for the police forces, which control the prisons, to prevent the use of cell phone in those precincts.  
Since the devices are small, visitors invent any kind of ruse to circumvent control and get the devices to the prisoners. Not to mention the corruption that is uncontrollable in many countries.  For cell phones to get behind the bars, people have hidden them in the strangest parts of their bodies, from hair to intimate areas.  The police have had success at times, like when they detained two women – one who carried it in her vagina along with a bag of coke, and the other who carried it in her rectum.  These arrests, however, aren’t very common.  The registries also provide results – for example, in 2009, they seized 150 cell phones in just one Mexican prison. However, the police have to recognize that there are still hidden cell phones.
The best way to stop communication by gangs from inside prisons is by using communication locking systems that also allow the identification of telephone numbers.  But is there enough political willpower to block illicit activities from happening in prisons?  Not just a few recommend that prisons use services and equipment from speciality companies, like OPM Security, to find effective solutions to these serious problems.  There are control systems, made specifically with the objective of identifying numbers and places from where illegal communication intents come from and they can also be turned off.  These jammer systems are equipped with the latest technologies and, at the same time, are capable of maintaining intact the networks that normal citizens use. Therefore, only political will is required and a budget to eliminate this plague. 

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