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LAKE ARROWHEAD STATE PARK, Texas<\/strong> — I know I am missing something, but I have to offer this rant nevertheless.<\/p>\n

My wife and I are parked overnight in this state park. While relaxing in our RV, I heard a news report about a prison riot in South Carolina. Seven inmates died in the stab fest.<\/p>\n

Officials blame “illegal cell phones” for the riot that became a battle over territory inside the maximum-security lockup.<\/p>\n

Illegal cell phones? What does that mean? Oh, I guess it means the inmates acquired them through mail that had been sent to them from The Outside.<\/p>\n

Let me think about this. If I were King of the World, here’s what I would do:<\/p>\n

I would confiscate every piece of electronic equipment inside the prison.<\/p>\n

I would start by ordering prison security officers to enter every cell in the lockup, strip-search every inmate, tear their bedding apart if need be and look for these cell phones.<\/p>\n

Then I would set up a sort of “extreme screening” of every piece of mail that comes into the prison. Every package would get opened and examined for contraband. Cell phones constitute “contraband.”<\/p>\n

These individuals broke serious state laws in South Carolina. They sacrificed most of their rights. Sure, they deserve some<\/em> rights as citizens. They do not deserve to be subjected to “cruel and unusual punishment.” The deserve to live in quarters that allow them a modicum of space; Texas prisons were put under a federal court control over that issue, if you’ll recall.<\/p>\n

Living in a cell-phone-free zone, though, doesn’t qualify as “cruel” or “unusual” in this context.<\/p>\n

There you have it. Rant is over.<\/p>\n\n

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