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Chicago Inmates built PCs from e-Waste and connected online using prison network

Chicago Inmates built PCs from e-Waste and connected online using prison network
john
April 13, 2017

Did you ever heard a prisoners can navigate internet freely just like an ordinary individual?

This shocking truth has turned this premise into reality in USA.

Two Ohio prisoners who built personal computers from parts from e-waste, hid them in the ceiling, and connected those PCs to the Internet via the prison’s network.

The incident occurred in 2015 but has now been made public by the State of Ohio’s Office of the Inspector General, which published a 50-page report [PDF] on Tuesday, following almost a year-long investigation.

According to the report, a prison work program has backfired two inmates of Marion Correctional Institution in Ohio, Florida, who smuggled computer parts from an e-waste recycling workshop and built two clandestine computers out of them.

In order to hid the illegal activity, the unsupervised inmates later hid the computers behind a plywood board in the ceiling of a training room, and then connected those working PCs to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) network to access the Internet.

But once the inmates got online, unsurprisingly, they used their skills to break the law.

Based on the information of Ohio’s government watchdog, the inmates accessed the internal records of other inmates, created inmate passes for restricted areas, accessed websites with information about manufacturing drugs, weapons, and explosives, and apply for credit cards under another prisoner’s name for a planned tax fraud scheme.

Furthermore, the forensics team also found “self-signed certificates, Pidgin chat accounts, Tor sites, Tor geo exit nodes, ether soft, pornography, videos, VideoLan, virtual phone, and other various software.”

Gene Brady, discovered after prison technology employee alerted about unusual levels of internet activity on a contractor’s account on days when the employee was not scheduled to work.

Ultimately, a total of five inmates were identified as being involved with the hidden computers during the investigation:

Stanislov Transkiy – Executive committee chairman of Recycling.

Leeshan McCullough – Chairman of aquaculture.

Robert Cooper – Chairman of horticulture.

Matthew Brown – Chairman of environmental education.

Adam Johnston – Executive committee treasurer.

As of now, all the five inmates have been separated and moved to other correctional facilities.

“We will thoroughly review the reports and take any additional steps necessary to prevent these types of things from happening again,” the ODRC said in a statement.

“It’s of critical importance that we provide necessary safeguards in regards to the use of technology while still providing opportunities for offenders to participate in meaningful and rehabilitative programming.”

Meanwhile, the Marion Correctional Institution (MCI), which houses nearly 2,500 inmates, operates many programs to educate or provide services to the community, including the MCI Green Initiative to revamp the institution’s trash and recycling processes.

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