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Chained to their desks: prisoners will staff call centre within Indian jail

NetworkingStudentNetworkingStudent Member Posts: 1,407 ■■■■■■■■□□
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I found this article on CNET while researching different smart phones. Can you believe there will be prisoners handling our data and working on the help desk?

Chained to their desks: prisoners will staff call centre within Indian jail | World news | The Guardian

Chained to their desks: prisoners will staff call centre within Indian jailMurder convict among trainees for scheme backed by India's authorities which could lead to inmates answering calls from UK
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened."

--Alexander Graham Bell,
American inventor
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    tierstentiersten Member Posts: 4,505
    NetworkingStudent wrote: »
    Can you believe there will be prisoners handling our data and working on the help desk?
    Its not a new concept and has already been implemented for years in the US.
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    veritas_libertasveritas_libertas Member Posts: 5,746 ■■■■■■■■■■
    No way... icon_lol.gif
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    tierstentiersten Member Posts: 4,505
    http://www.docs.state.ny.us/PressRel/2010/DOCSDMV_CallCenter_Dec2010.html wrote:
    The men’s medium security Arthur Kill Correctional Facility has been operating its DMV Call Center since 1988, currently employing 55 inmates. Arthur Kill’s center fields about 55,000 calls per month, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, with the majority of calls coming from New York City, Long Island and Westchester and Rockland counties through one of two local lines or a toll-free line. About 1,200 inmates have worked at the Arthur Kill Call Center since it opened. As with Bedford Hills, the inmate participants at Arthur Kill have no access to DMV computers and are unable to access any customer data, and those convicted of a telephone-related crime or credit card or computer fraud are not eligible to work at the center.

    You're a tad late to be worried about it :P
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    eMeSeMeS Member Posts: 1,875 ■■■■■■■■■□
    tiersten wrote: »
    You're a tad late to be worried about it :P

    Yeah, this has been happening in the US for quite a while.

    MS
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    tpatt100tpatt100 Member Posts: 2,991 ■■■■■■■■■□
    I have no problem with it if it were people serving time for stupid stuff but murder? yeah that might be an issue.
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    TheShadowTheShadow Member Posts: 1,057 ■■■■■■□□□□
    tpatt100 wrote: »
    I have no problem with it if it were people serving time for stupid stuff but murder? yeah that might be an issue.

    Dead men tell no tales. It's not like they are going to get out soon. Better for him to ask you for the last 4 of your SS number or the security code on your credit card than the inmate up for parole in six months icon_lol.gif
    Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of technology?... The Shadow DO
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    GamingCrazyGamingCrazy Member Posts: 113
    TheShadow wrote: »
    Dead men tell no tales. It's not like they are going to get out soon. Better for him to ask you for the last 4 of your SS number or the security code on your credit card than the inmate up for parole in six months icon_lol.gif

    What he said ;)
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    eansdadeansdad Member Posts: 775 ■■■■□□□□□□
    So how long before they become the new tier 1 model? A staff you don't have to pay for and that would gladly be behind a desk for 10 hours a day instead of in gen-pop.
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