The Sheriff said the investigation prompted his alert last week about deadly doses of drugs heading into his county.
Thirty-one year-old Richard Smith is already serving an eight-year sentence on drug trafficking charges.
But Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader says that didn't stop him from leading a drug ring from behind prison walls, with a whole team of people moving drugs and money in and out of Pike County.
How the hell does someone run a drug ring from prison? That by itself makes this case ridiculous. And, it makes me wonder what the hell is going on in our prison system.
Pike County task force busts drug trafficking ring run by Ohio prisoner | WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio | Columbus News, Weather & Sports
I'm not surprised. Money talks and being a C.O. Is a dangerous and thankless job for not the best pay or conditions.
NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) -
A Channel 4 I-Team investigation reveals more than 100 inmates in Tennessee prisons operating their own Facebook pages, displaying photos and videos of drugs, cash and parties while they are behind bars.
How the hell does someone run a drug ring from prison? That by itself makes this case ridiculous. And, it makes me wonder what the hell is going on in our prison system.
Pike County task force busts drug trafficking ring run by Ohio prisoner | WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio | Columbus News, Weather & Sports
There are a lot of civilians working in prisons and security is not as tight as you see on tv except in super max type prisons so cell phones are common as are visits with gang members.
Could also be the effect of Private prisons who are known to hire contractors and others on the cheap. Or maybe, it's just typical American permissiveness. After all, people from other countries consider our prisons a joke.
For example, check out this problem.
Inmates party, display drugs & cash in Facebook posts & video - WSMV Channel 4
Prison is no longer the deterrent it used to be. The liberal policies on inmates "rights" are accomplishing nothing but what you see now. They have more rights and comforts than most of the people out on the streets NOT committing crimes. Hell, they get a free college education. When someone gets out of prison, they need to be of the thought that it was the worst thing ever, and not want to ever go back.
How the hell does someone run a drug ring from prison? That by itself makes this case ridiculous. And, it makes me wonder what the hell is going on in our prison system.
Pike County task force busts drug trafficking ring run by Ohio prisoner | WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio | Columbus News, Weather & Sports
They use cell phones not the jail phones. But I'm sure that some CO's are in on it. They have to be.Ohio is one of the most corrupt states in the USA. At least that is what I read some years ago in which an author backed it up by pointing out--if I remember correctly--that something like 40 politicians in Northern Ohio had Federal indictments brought down on them over a span of 10 years.
But that is at the state level. We (regular folks) don't know if--or if so how much--corruption at the Federal level is involved in trafficking into the country that heroin that the Ohio prison gang in your link was going to sell on the streets.
Responsibility and accountability are not one and the same. They differ like discrimination and racism. You can be given great amount of responsibility due to your position in government but hold little to zero accountability. In terms of the law that latter means you are able to be questioned (interrogated) and probably more importantly you are subject to the law like everyone else and can go to prison for misconduct or violating the law. Whether one is a Democrat or Republican once you are enthroned as a Federal politician in the United States its almost impossible to have any accountability (beyond being questioned, but you are even protected from much of that).
Trump is an outlier in that Republicans and Democrats in Government are trying to set him up and demand more accountability out him than perhaps any US President in my life time.
I didn't know the US Government and Bolivian Government got into the drug running business with a Nazi war criminal. You see... when you arrest smaller scale drug dealers on the streets of America but allow Federal drug dealers or their business partners in cartels to sell massive shipments of drugs into the USA then you are holding bottom rung Americans "accountable" before the law but not the Big Fish in Government.
So, the CIA were shipping in kilos of heroin to mainland USA in the containers of dead American GI's from the Vietnam War. Because they are so patriotic. And Democrats yell "how dare" Donald Trump even question the integrity and moral superiority of the CIA. I also didn't know Oliver North in his diaries spoke about being involved in getting kilos or tons of illegal drugs shipped into the USA. I believe he was part of the Republican faction. Basically establishment Democrats and Republicans.
In terms of the Ohio prison story, my guess (I don't know for fact) is that if the phones were used to run a drug business of significant size, even if speaking in code language, odds are at least some Corrections Officers were getting some payoffs or something. But my guess could be wrong. It's not always easy to figure out and catch things right away.
Check out post 3. Blows my mind.
They use cell phones not the jail phones. But I'm sure that some CO's are in on it. They have to be.
As for Ohio being most corrupt. There may have been a time when the Northern part of the state had a lot of it. But, nowadays, not so much. Most corrupt state, IMO, is Illinois.
CIA and drug smuggling? Yes. It's a conspiracy theory which has been proven to be true.
Prison is no longer the deterrent it used to be. The liberal policies on inmates "rights" are accomplishing nothing but what you see now. They have more rights and comforts than most of the people out on the streets NOT committing crimes. Hell, they get a free college education. When someone gets out of prison, they need to be of the thought that it was the worst thing ever, and not want to ever go back.
When was prison ever a deterrent?
We've had prisons for a long time, and yet crimes are still committed. Clearly you cannot establish a cause and effect relationship between the use of incarceration and crime rates. It is a false comparison, but very popular.
Yes, for certain timid individuals they might say "I don't want to go to prison", but that does not really support your general statement.
At best, prison is simply a way to punish people for their transgressions. Presumably a "civilized" way to deal with transgressions.
Just as keeping a dog in a cage will usually make him vicious, the same will happen to the human.
Published on Feb 1, 2016
What is incarceration for and is there a case for retribution? This panel compares America’s punitive prisons and Germany’s rehabilitation centered system during Tina Brown Live Media's American Justice Summit in New York City.
Xatar in Prison: VICE INTL (Germany)
Published on Dec 23, 2014
Giwar Hajabi, aka Xatar, is a German rapper of Iranian descent who was released from Prison in December, 2014. He was originally sentenced to eight years in jail after robbing a gold transporter in 2009, stealing gold worth $2.2 million (and it's still missing). Previous offenses included breaking a playboy bunny's nose in Hugh Hefner's mansion during a trip to the USA, and alleged drug dealing during a stay in London. After the gold robbery, he fled to Iraq via Moscow where he was jailed, tortured, and finally handed over to Germany.
VICE Germany was the only camera team admitted during his stay in prison. In Xatar in Prison, we discuss his newly-found religious beliefs, follow him around during a typical day in jail, and attend a group therapy session. While assuring everyone that he has changed, his and his labels' music continue to spread messages of crime and violence. One of his most notorious music videos showed the exact circumstances of the gold robbery months before he actually committed the crime.
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How the hell does someone run a drug ring from prison? That by itself makes this case ridiculous. And, it makes me wonder what the hell is going on in our prison system.
Pike County task force busts drug trafficking ring run by Ohio prisoner | WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio | Columbus News, Weather & Sports
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