LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Grace Carr Inmates increasingly use drones to smuggle anything from cell phones to weapons into jails across the country, according to Department of Justice (DOJ) documents released in mid-June. The documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, reveal more than a dozen attempts to transport mobile phones, drugs, and porn…
By Kody Fairfield The “Mannequin Challenge” is one of the newest trends that has been setting the internet ablaze. The short films showing people pretending to be frozen in time, while Black Beatles by Rae Sremmurd plays in the background, has been done by celebrities, police departments, sports teams, and now… prison inmates. The Associated Press through KFI, a…
By Casey Harper A crew of Texas inmates recently broke from their jail cell — but not to make an escape. Newly released surveillance video shows the June 23 incident where an armed jail guard had an apparent heart attack, WFAA reports. The concerned inmates busted from their cell to help. Still wearing their shackles, the inmates made enough…
By Elena Weissmann Two Indiana inmates escaped their prison cell by climbing through the wall last week — an escape that mimics the plot of the 1994 film, “The Shawshank Redemption.” Just as the infamous Andy Dufresne of “Shawshank” digs a tunnel out of his prison cell using a rock hammer, the Indiana inmates somehow drilled a large enough…
By Eric Lieberman Prisons all across America are dealing with a huge problem: keeping cell phones out of the hands of inmates. Law enforcement entities, both local and national, are trying to decipher how contraband mobile phones are making it within the confines of the prison walls. More than 50 Georgia inmates were charged with corruption this…