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Technology in Corrections - Drones

  • FAA UAS DRONE LE Reference Card

    Basic Law Enforcement Response D.R.O.N.E. & FAA drone incident reporting cheat sheets.

  • Airmail via Drones Is Vexing for Prisons (2015)

    "BISHOPVILLE, S.C.

  • Feds Seek Ways To Protect Prisons From Drones (2015)

    "Legal drone delivery may still be a ways off, but quadcopters have been smuggling contraband into prisons for years now.

  • Correctional Agencies’ Response to Drone Intrusions (2016)

    "Creating change in the criminal justice field does not often go over well. But, like life, change in law enforcement is inevitable.

  • The Threat of Drones to Secure Facilities (2016)

    "In March, an inmate in Maryland was convicted of conspiring with two other men to fly drugs and other contraband into a maximum-security prison ab

  • How to catch drones smuggling drugs into prison (2016)

    "It was your usual stockpile of prison contraband: six tightly wrapped packages filled with drugs, tobacco, rolling papers, and porn.

  • Minnesota Department of Corrections - Policies, Directives and Instructions Manual - Perimeter Management (2016)

    Minnesota Department Of Corrections - Policy and procedures on the management of drones.

  • FAA - Law Enforcement Guidance For Suspected Unauthorized UAS Operations (2016)

    "There is evidence of a considerable increase in the unauthorized use of small, inexpensive Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS or “drones”) by individu

  • Prison and Jail Officials Face New Challenge: Drones Used to Smuggle Contraband (2016)

    "Drones are increasingly being used in attempts to smuggle drugs and other contraband into prisons worldwide.

  • Prisons try to stop drones from delivering drugs, porn and cellphones to inmates (2016)

    "Prison inmates, a remarkably ingenious bunch, are disrupting long-standing methods of smuggling drugs, porn and cellphones the same way online ret

  • 2016 Virtual Conference - Drones: Implications for Corrections Transcript

    "Hello and welcome to Drones, Implications for Corrections.

  • NIC Virtual Conference November 9, 2016 - Drones: Implications of Unmanned Aircraft

    "A Panel Discussion in Three Parts
    • Law Enforcement Applications
    • Threats to Secure Facilities
    • Drone Law"