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  2. Electronic monitoring in the United States - Wikipedia

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    GPS-based tracking system used for some individuals released from prison, jail or immigrant detention. According to a survey distributed by The Pew Charitable Trusts in December 2015, "the number of accused and convicted criminal offenders in the United States who are supervised with ankle monitors and other GPS-system electronic tracking devices rose nearly 140 percent over 10 years ...

  3. Panopticon - Wikipedia

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    Inside one of the buildings of the Presidio Modelo. Bentham's proposal for a panopticon prison met with great interest among British government officials not only because it incorporated the pleasure-pain principle developed by the materialist philosopher Thomas Hobbes, but also because Bentham joined the emerging discussion on political ...

  4. Tucker Telephone - Wikipedia

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    The Tucker Telephone was invented by A. E. Rollins, [1] the resident physician at the Tucker State Prison Farm, Arkansas, in the 1960s. At the Tucker State Prison Farm, an inmate would be taken to the "hospital room" where he was most likely restrained to an examining table and two wires would be applied to the prisoner.

  5. Internet in prisons - Wikipedia

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    The prison management authority will also monitor and access the usage of the internet whereby it is strictly only for the learning purposes in getting references from the OUM digital library which has 700,000 references online. Their study time is limited and they must fully utilize it for learning. [7] [8] [9]

  6. Inmate telephone system - Wikipedia

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    In order to use an inmate telephone service, inmates must register and provide a list of names and numbers for the people they intend to communicate with. [5] Call limitations vary depending on the prison's house rule, but calls are typically limited to 15 minutes each, and inmates must wait thirty minutes before being allowed to make another call. [6]

  7. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    At the time, the Justice Department oversaw both the INS and the Bureau of Prisons — two of Esmor’s biggest customers. The company also hired James C. Poland, who had worked in the Texas prison system, where Esmor was angling for new contracts. All of these recruits positioned the company for winnings.

  8. Time: the BBC drama trying to capture the grim reality of ...

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    Time is unflinching in its portrait of a prison complex riven with flaws, but it never presents its officers as two-dimensional cut-outs: at points, their frustration with the system is palpable ...

  9. Police box - Wikipedia

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    The BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who features a time machine, the TARDIS, disguised as a Mackenzie Trench-style police box. As police boxes were phased out in the 1970s, over time the image of the blue police box became associated as much with Doctor Who as with the police.