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Prisoners Busted After Stealing WiFi to Watch Porn Behind Bars

When the jail caught on, they responded by asking nearby residents to turn off their routers

By Reegan von Wildenradt July 31, 2017

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The staff of HMP Gartree, a prison in Leicestershire, England, were shocked when they discovered inmates were using smuggled cell phones to watch porn in jail. How? The guards discovered that the prisoners were using the hotspots of nearby residents to gain access to the Internet for said porn.

But instead of working to confiscate the cellular devices or upgrade their internal security, the jail sent a letter out to nearby residents requesting that they update their Internet security or unplug their router altogether. Residents were a little peeved, to say the least.

"I'm not happy. It should be the prison who sorts out any problem, not us," Mary Dilks, 70, told The Sun, "The real problem is that prisoners shouldn't have mobile phones in the first place."

What's more, the Daily Mail reports that bringing a cell phone into prison or transmitting sounds or images from within a prison using a cell phone carries a maximum punishment of two additional years in prison. So, while the jail scrambles to scramble the locals' passwords, when they finally come around to cracking down on the cell phone problem, we just have to ask the inmates, was it really worth it?

Since HMP Gartree holds the United Kingdom's largest concentration of prisoners serving life sentences, the answer may be, "Yes."

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