With Respect To The Two Recent Jail Breaks At Maximum Security Prisons......

[global1]

First the escape on the East Coast of those two convicts and now with the escape of this Mexican Drug Lord - both which involved underground escape routes and tunnels - don't we have the technology today to prevent such escapes?

So you mean to tell me these are maximum security prisons as long as everything that happens is above ground?

We should have the technology to be able to detect movement underground. We can detect minute seismic disturbances - why can't they detect someone constructing a mile long tunnel under a prison facility?

I have a motion detector light on my garage. An person or an animal can set it off and turn on the spotlight. Don't we have the ability to build some sort of motion detecting technology under prisons to pick up on the slightest sounds or movements going on under the facility?

Come on people - this is the 21st century. What about non-removable bracelets on convicts with an RFID tag that can detect whereabouts in and outside the prison should an escape be made.

I just don't believe that we can't come up with a method to eliminate such prison breaks.

Really - a mile long tunnel with air conditioning? Un-effing believable!!!!!!

[logosoco]

1. That sounds like a good idea, some sort of tracking device.

But it sounds like it would cut into the profits for the private prisons. Can't have that!

[ChazII]

2. As long as we have prisons we will have

tunnels.

My favorite tunnel escape happened in World War II in AZ. Prisoners dug a tunnel and escaped from their POW camp. They even had a raft with them to get to the Salt River to escape to Mexico. Trouble was they did not know that just because a map says river doesn't mean there is water.

edited to add this link

http://www.historynet.com/the-not-so-great-escape-german-pows-in-the-us-during-wwii.htm