The states would not disclose how often contraband is found.Ĭalifornia is the only state to chain inmates while they are in isolation cells, and its watches can last two weeks and longer - one stretched 52 days in 2013 before the inmate was transferred to a psychiatric hospital. Ohio inmates can be kept in the cell up to seven days. Illinois and Georgia wait until inmates have one bowel movement, while New York waits for two. Texas, with the nation's largest state prison system, and Florida, which closely trails California's inmate population, along with Michigan, keep inmates who are suspected of swallowing contraband isolated for no more than 48 hours in a cell with the water turned off. He said the department has reduced the number of watches in recent years and is exploring scanning technology that could one day replace them.Ĭalifornia's current practice goes well beyond those of other states. "We still have to have some way to determine if inmates have something in their bodies or they don't," Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard said in an interview. Inmates are restrained to keep them from re-swallowing items and it is the inmates who can prolong the process by refusing to eat, department spokesman Jeffrey Callison said. "I mean, people are shocked when they hear of this." "It's a fairly low percentage and people who aren't guilty are being put through torture," said Laura Magnani, an American Friends Service Committee program director who sits on a committee that mediates between the prison system and inmates. Something is recovered from about four out of 10 inmates. There they stay for at least 72 hours or until they complete at least three closely watched bowel movements and a guard searches through the results. What are known as "hand isolation devices" - similar to oven mitts - can be used with a warden's approval. If they fight back, they can be strapped down by the arms and legs. Their clothing is taped shut at the waist and legs to prevent them from physically reaching body cavities, their hands are cuffed to a chain around their waist and their legs may be shackled. Suspected smugglers are strip-searched, then placed in an isolation cell in which the toilet has been covered and the water turned off. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's inspector general reported procedural problems this spring in nearly half of the contraband watch cases his office reviewed. "I had to be duct-taped and gift-wrapped and shackled, 24-7, even while I slept." "It was the worst two weeks of my life," recalled Raymond Kidd, who was on contraband watch at Folsom State Prison for 13 days 2011 that found nothing. Other large states have far less restrictive ways of searching for contraband. The watches have been used 1,200 times in the last 2 1/2 years, yet state reports show that they produced results less than 41 percent of the time. Some recovered items seem truly bizarre: a can opener, hearing aids, and an entire electric tattoo kit. Prison officials say the watches are necessary to recover weapons, cellphones and notes passed among inmates to coordinate illegal gang activities. This is probably simple speciality from Hollywood which is supposedly entertaining but at the end you feel tired instead of refreshed from the 'entertainment'.SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) - California uses a controversial method to recover contraband from inmates believed to have swallowed it or concealed it in body cavities: "potty watches" where inmates are handcuffed and shackled for days or even weeks while guards watch around-the-clock until nature takes its course. Lacks character and maybe "soul"!? On the other hand, I kept watching it to the end. I completely understand people who didn't like it because for me was on the edge - could easily go to the other side, mainly because even with all the action and all the twists still felt somehow distant, with no connection to the most of the viewers. I cannot say that I find the work of the director or the writer Aaron Guzikowski lacking, but there was not much to be remembered. Simmons is actually a remake of the 2008 Icelandic film Reykjavík-Rotterdam which Baltasar Kormákur starred in. This action crime thriller with Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Caleb Landry Jones, Giovanni Ribisi, Lukas Haas, Diego Luna and J. #WATCH CONTRABAND MOVIE#I know now the work of the director Baltasar Kormákur, and because I usually enjoy Mark Wahlberg I decided to finally watch this movie which I got a year ago.
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