Prison Guards to Use Pain Ray on Inmates
Prison Guards to Use Pain Ray on Inmates
Posted 08/25/2010 at 5:05am
| by Paul Lilly
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Lasers are serious business (trust us on this one), and believe it or not, they're seriously going to be used to restore order among brawling inmates in a U.S. prison, U.K.'s Daily Mail reports.
Officially, it's called the Assault Intervention Device, and what it does is fire off a focused, non-lethal beam of energy at the target, which in this case will be inmates trading blows with each other. But even though it's not a deadly laser, prison officers describe the sensation as "excruciatingly painful."
"We hope that this type of technology will either cause an inmate to stop an assault or lessen the severity of an assault by them being distracted by the pain as a result of the beam," said Bob Osborne, Commander of the Sheriff's Department of Technology Exploration Program. "I equate it to opening an oven door and feeling that blast of hot air, except instead of being all over me, it's more focused.
"And you begin to feel this warming feeling, and then you go 'Yow, I need to get out of the way,'" Osborne added.
Plans are in place to mount the device on the ceiling at Pitches Detention Center at Los Angeles County Jail, home to some 65 convicts.
"This device will allow us to quickly intervene without having to enter the area and without incapacitating or injuring either combatant," said Sheriff Lee Baca in a statement.
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spoonard
August 30, 2010 at 10:15am
They used HumVee mounted models of these in Iraq for crowd control.
sniggler
August 25, 2010 at 9:16am
Sorry to burst Bobby's bubble, but people are still going to get shanked.
Keith E. Whisman
August 25, 2010 at 8:49am
That's it? Only some 65convicts at Los Angeles Country Jail? Wow. You would think that LA Country Jail would be over crowded. Last I heard LA was a really really big county, population wise, and with the gangs pretty much taking over the streets of LA, the jails would be packed. I'm in Phoenix, in Maricopa County and the gangs own the streets here and our jails are freaking over packed. So what this means is that LA country needs a New Sheriff like Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Sheriff Joe kicks ass.
So is LA that liberal that it's afraid to go after the criminals? I imagine then that the police only focus on policing the average citizen rather than actually try to prevent crime and actually investigate crimes and arrest perps. So basically the police only go after speeders and drunk drivers in LA since the Jails are so empty that is the only conclusion I can think of. Its just inconceivable to think that LA is the most law abiding county in the country. Really sounds like someone isn't doing their job.
thefuzz4
August 25, 2010 at 8:29am
Saw this on Modern Marvels only difference was it was a lot larger and it was mounted on a Humvee. It uses microwaves to heat just the surface of the skin. I can't think of the name of the episode but it was something about future weapons or something like that.
someuid
August 25, 2010 at 8:05am
Wouldn't a metal food tray defeat this pretty quickly? Get a buddy to hold the tray while you stab away.
I bet if they just flood the room and knock every prisoner to the ground, the non involved individuals would put the hurt down on anyone trying to commit an offence in the first place.
Peanut Fox
August 25, 2010 at 12:26pm
You think they give inmates metal trays to eat off of in a max prison? They be paper or styrofoam sir.
For what it's worth your proposal makes incredibly good sense.
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