Monitor calls: How can this be an issue when we have the NSA able to snoop on all the worlds' phone calls and mine them for content.
Apple Siri has the ability to translate spoken word to text.
The point is that there is lots of technology that can do a first pass filter on phone calls.
It doesn't need to be manual.
Additionally, this is ignoring the reality that cell phones are smuggled into prisons as well. Any coordinated criminal activity doesn't need to use a land line that is monitored - just use a smuggled cell phone. ( http://fusion.net/story/41931/inside-the-prison-systems-illi... )
> The point is that there is lots of technology that can do a first pass filter on phone calls.
Like most things, it becomes a question of incentives not technology. To the prison it looks like:
You want me to pay lots of money to develop/purchase a system that will vastly reduce the overhead on my very expensive phone system and will probably make me have to charge less?
(And for private prisons)
This will reduce recidivism and therefor the number of repeat 'customers' coming to my facility?
Apple Siri has the ability to translate spoken word to text.
The point is that there is lots of technology that can do a first pass filter on phone calls.
It doesn't need to be manual.
Additionally, this is ignoring the reality that cell phones are smuggled into prisons as well. Any coordinated criminal activity doesn't need to use a land line that is monitored - just use a smuggled cell phone. ( http://fusion.net/story/41931/inside-the-prison-systems-illi... )