No-fly zones to be imposed over jails to prevent drones from being used to smuggle drugs into prisons

In view of the increasing numbers of incidents that involve the use of remotely-controlled devices or drones to smuggle contraband into jails, proposals are under consideration to have no-fly zones over jails - this is expected to thwart drones from being used to smuggle drugs and mobile phones into prisons.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 3 November 2016.

It seems prisoners are ordering illicit cargo using phone smuggled into cells. Subsequently, a 'pilot' controlling the drone from outside the walls lands the device or makes it hover outside a cell window to allow the package to be picked up.
In one instance, a drone that was carrying super-strength skunk cannabis, mobile phones and chargers had landed in an exercise yard at Category B HMP Bullingdon in Bicester, Oxon. Another case was the shocking footage that was captured at Wansdworth Prison in London in April that showed a black bag floating through the air via a drone into a window. There were two pieces of wood tied together that reached out from a cell and hooked it in.
Some action has already been taken in November last year when ministers had introduced new laws to stop people using drones to drop contraband or landing them inside prison grounds. Those convicted could face up to two years in prison. However, the Government is now exploring other methods to prevent use of drones to smuggle drugs and phones.


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At least 18 inmates died in group clashes in two separate penitentiaries in Brazil's Amazon region. In addition, more than three dozen escaped after a third prison riot caused a large fire in a complex outside Sao Paulo. The authorities were examining a possibility of there being some connection between the first two uprisings in the jungle states of Rondonia and Roraima.
Ten prisoners died in the mutiny at the Monte Cristo prison in the city of Boa Vista in Roraima and eight others were killed in a similar riot about 800 miles away in the penitentiary in Rondonia.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 18 October 2016.

The trouble began during visiting hours when some inmates armed with knives and wooden sticks broke padlocks and attacked those in another wing, who are believed to have been members of a rival gang. The rioters also took 100 women visitors hostage.
The riots erupted on a day the prisoners had about 50 people who were visiting the penitentiary in Roraima. This is situated on the border with Venezuela and Guyana. The rioters had taken hostages but they were later released unharmed.
Incidentally, Brazil has the fourth largest prison population in the world. It has 600,000 inmates packed into a number of increasingly ramshackle jails and, at Monte Cristo, there are 1,400 inmates held in a prison which was supposed to have a capacity of half that figure.


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