"BISHOPVILLE, S.C. - During the graveyard shift at 1:44 a.m., security cameras at the prison here picked up the blinking lights of an unidentified flying object approaching the facility’s fence. A corrections officer was dispatched to investigate, but by the time she got there, all she could see was a man running away into the dense forest that surrounds the prison."
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Airmail via Drones Is Vexing for Prisons (2015)
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