He’s alone with Martin Shkreli, much worse!
Prisons are used to dealing with convicts trying to run their drug empires from behind bars.
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More like prisons are used to facilitating such bunker commerce, along with teaching the mildly criminal exactly how to be the most effective criminals.
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Because jammers can’t selectively block phones used by prisoners?
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Well sure, but my point is that (as in any community) there are the written-on-paper rules and the actual rules.
The paper rules say cell phones absolutely prohibited to infinity.
The actual rules, as hammered out between the guards and inmates who have to (more or less literally) live with one another, are much murkier.
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High-powered directional RF signal jammers have been around for decades. That said, their use case is in the field. It would be far cheaper to simply shield the cell blocks (pun totally intended). But even that costs money. Granted Shkreli did this from a low-security prison at Fort Dix in New Jersey operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as opposed to a private contractor, but they don’t even have locks on the interior doors, let alone electronic countermeasures. Basically he got rich white guy prison and thought he could continue to flaunt the law.
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Why not a Stingray to monitor all calls instead?
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Sure he is. He’s attempting to reform the upper management structure of his business. His eye is still on the prize.
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I’d say 'what an asshole’, but we all already know that’s how he got a hold of a phone in the first place.
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I doubt he can cut the guards in for stock-options, well, not without sending up a huge flare of attention. Same as usual then. 
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While I’m not for torturing prisoners with solitary confinement on principal but in the case of Shkreli …
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It’s not solitary. Shkreli’s got ego enough for three people. Fuck 'em.
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I see what you did there
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I mean, that was the guy who refused to commit genocide against the daleks… but I guess he’d sign off on torture for Shkreli…
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I am glad that the prison took action against Shkreli for flagrantly breaking the rules in everyone’s face. I’m disappointed that the only options seem to be torture and nothing. But for Shkreli I wouldn’t be surprised if solitary is actually the only thing that will stop him from breaking the rules, that is, if it isn’t a proportionate response to his entitlement.
(There’s no reason solitary has to be torture, the cells could be bigger, there could be more time allowed out of them, etc.)
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Bravo!
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Sure, but breaking the written rules didn’t get him in trouble. If he had kept his mouth shut he would still have his phone, still be running his business, and not be in solitary.
Er, or more likely he would have broken some other unwritten rule.
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It’s interesting to see how BB authors will complain about someone they like being in solitary but no complaint when it’s someone they dislike. You really can’t have it both ways, either it’s torture and wrong (and the reporting should be consistent), or it’s not.
Edit. I see Cory did make mention. Rob’s re-boing which is what led me here when the post’s comments link didn’t work did not mention the torture.
It’s illegal(FCC).
People need to be able to dial 911.
Edit: they could do like Vegas casinos and not design in a way cell towers penetrate though… 
