Jail Bait
AS FEATURED ON ABC RADIO WITH KATHY BEDFORD
Call me stupid but always though the idea of being sent to jail was to learn how to be a law abiding citizen. (and maybe learn a few things about how far your willing to go for a packet of cigarettes.)
Sure, I understand that criminals learn from each other and many people come out of jail with a few extra criminal skills.
But I was always under the impression they wouldn’t use these skills until AFTER THEY GOT OUT OF PRISON.
In Miami, phone users have reported a rash of *72 scams. A polite man calls them victim, claiming to be from a nearby hospital and that a loved one had been injured.
However, if they hang up the phone and dial *72 and then a long phone number, they’ll be put through to the doctor in charge who can answer all their questions.
In reality, the victim has just activated call forwarding and all ingoing and outgoing calls have been rerouted to a new number. The con artist can then run up expensive calls at the victim’s cost.
When police traced the calls they found that they originated from a nearby prison. Prisoners had been using the prison phones to run the simple scam.
Why can prisoners make phone calls at all? Let alone complicated, extra charges, three way calls?
Surely, the idea is to remove people from society when they do something wrong?
2 Comments to
ok you’re stupid.
(sorry Nick, couldn’t help myself there.)
I have no problem with prisoners having access to a telephone, tv, the internet etc… Yes prison is for rehabilitation, but that doesn’t contradict their access to these technologies. I think that it should, however, be used as a reward for good prison behaviour, instead of an automatic right.
Also, turning off all the unnecessary functions of the phone would be a good idea. Just phone calls, nothing more.
cheers,
Sammy
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I doubt it.