The cost of keeping prisoners in jail is an expense footed by the taxpayers, and it’s not exactly cheap. Many people feel that those tax dollars could be better spent elsewhere, and that’s the goal of the recently proposed Minnesota Rehabilitation and Reinvestment Act that was included in Gov. Tim Walz’s revised budget. But in […]
New Research Reveals How Hackers Could Take Over Prisons
New research demonstrates just how easy it is for a computer hacker to take control of a prison’s computer system. The gaping vulnerability will be uncovered at this year’s DefCon hacker’s conference in Las Vegas. John Strauchs, tech security consultant at over 100 US prisons, police stations, and courthouses, recently purchased a Programmable Logic Computer […]
5 Worst Prisons in the World
America has some pretty awful prisons. But, most of our jails don’t even compare to these five prisons from around the globe. 5) Mendoza Prison, Argentina: To begin our list, Mendoza Prison houses 1,600 inmates in a facility designed for 600. As many as five inmates are packed into each four square meter cell. Septic […]
