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Santo Domingo.- Justice minister Radhamés Jiménez on Monday announced several measures to control the use of cell phones in the country’s jails, including the import of U.S.- trained dogs to sniff them out, equipment to interrupt their signal and the Web, and the confiscation of satellite dishes.
The official made the announcement together with National Investigations Department (DNI) director Ramon Aquino, National Police chief Jose Polanco, Army chief Pedro Caceres Chestaro, Dominican Telecom Institute director David Perez, and other officials.
The announcement comes twos days after president Leonel Fernandez, in a gathering on citizen security held Saturday in Santiago, complained that inmates commit crimes from behind bars by using cell phones, including contract killings.
Jimenez said the equipment will be used to block the signal in the jails, while the Prisons Department helped by the Army will conduct searches to seize cell phones in the country’s 37 correctional facilities.
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Oh Lord. A laugh riot a day.
"confiscation of satellite dishes."
GMiller: You took the words out of my mouth.
I hope they're not going to eliminate the drugs or the parties.
Another improvised measure, by an improvised government that just seeks band-aid solutions.
They will spend lots of money on buying dogs, and scrambling equipment and make juicy commissions,
and the prices for use and possession of cellular phones in jail would go up astronomically....for a while.
Afterwards, when the fracas slows, and the waters go down to a more sustainable level, prisoners will go back to relaying in their cell phones, their only contact with the outside, sane world.
To enforce this new rule, in the Dominican jails, with faulty and primitive communications, is not only unreasonable, but also a most cruel and unjust punishment.
They can smell RF now?
Oh boy. These dogs are good. They must sprinkle IC's in their Kibbles & Bits.
First the cell-phones, then the satellite dishes, what next, the
pizza hut deliveries? Geez!!
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We (RD) are just 2 elections away from becoming haiti. lest we wake up the population, which
is gonna be difficult when they are more and more of haitian descent,,can you say catch 22?
Haitian women make up roughly half of the patients giving birth in Dominican Republic (Washington Post)
few years ago got a call from one young lady, the police had taken her mother who was a friend on mine. she worked at a small business in the pop area. in the night some one took a computer and a few small other things.
the next day the police arrested every one that worked in this small business, they had this lady friend of mine for over 2 days at the police station, i went over there with a lawyer friend of miine after a few minutes we had a deal for her release the deal $10,000 pesos..
{this lady had worked at this place for many years and never whould she had taken anything that was not hers.
justice in the dr as long as u have the dollars to pay for this justice.