I entered World's Highest Tech Prison.

way that's really reassuring to the consumer, even in an industry where it's so important to have the best that they're still using consumer gear, in a sense, the tracking features of that DJI drone that's good enough to track and escape from a

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er, so this is my response vehicle here, so let's go to the house blocks. Now this is where the

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ers themselves are housed and after that we are going to talk to One. Everyone's perception of a prisoner's bars, isn't it? And you can see the windows without bars and when you say windows without bars you mean, I suppose, glass. no metal bars, yes it is glass.

I guess a lot has also been invested in the actual material to ensure that no one can oh yeah oh yeah we build to

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nical standards and the

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nical standard for this is that they have to be attack resistant. For 90 minutes we tested these and used the national resources to do it, so attack the window with anything we can find in the area. What we would expect to find: we have one person attack it for 30 seconds and stop the timer and then we put another person on it as well and do it for a period of 90 minutes, which takes 6 to two hours, that's phenomenal.

The barless window isn't about keeping air out, it's about not impeding the view, which then refocuses the brain, really good, now towards the interior, where the hallways greet you. which is where the routine medication is stored for all the inmates now that we are coming to the new

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and with the technology that we have, this great piece of equipment is biomic, so they scan your finger and your specific medication will be available to you they will be in one of these lockers, so where we have placed bars and where we think there is a need for bars, we have placed them horizontally and that is because they look like blinds instead of bars, that is a specific decision that you made for the psychological well-being of People notice absolutely you have another big green button here, yeah, don't touch it, okay, wait, they're everywhere, those are all emergency buttons and you need one there and they're also placed in risk areas. one reason this is kept open right now, yes, because you are not allowed to see a lock working, a door is locked or is in what we call a lock, why don't we use biometrics for this , you would have to look at how expensive then what happens if they fail and then just before the cells there is a recreational area as you can see I mean it's nice but it is what it is you are free to use this at all times no absolutely no' You are expected to go to work or study during the day.

I just noticed that the entire building is an X. Is there anything specific to the shape of an X? Something to do with being able to see what is happening from all angles. Yes, absolutely correct if you were. to sit there you have to feel the vision where you can see all the sound deadening loads landing, yes, acoustic tiles, it creates a calmer environment, doesn't it? So we need people to be able to talk to people at a certain level that maintains that. calm, well, the default talk volume is talk volume, yes, it was a very quiet space, come on CSL.

I wasn't quite sure what to expect here, so here you go, there's a bed, there's a bed frame, there's a phone here, who can you call with this? so it could be family members, any individual they can put, we risk assess them and look at who they were allowed to call, then they go to work, study, get the finances to pay for the phone calls, that seems to be one of the big questions. of this prison. What you are trying to answer is how can you keep someone away from normal society for many years, but not let them forget how that society works and therefore a common theme?

There are many opportunities here to learn, grow, improve, stay in touch with your family, as long as the prisoner also puts in the effort on their part and the idea is to prepare them for normal life again when they are on the other end, so you have a monitor, keyboard, mouse, there's actually a Mini. PC strapped to the back, they can book medal appointments, they can also attend open universities, that's crazy, a lot of the equipment is obviously very cheap, a very simple keyboard and mouse, but I guess the idea works without wasting money. the TV that passes through this also have access to watch HS.

It's the minimum we would expect to see. You have the glass, which is the reinforced glass, and you have a polycarbonate exterior, and there it is. it creates some sort of lock and that's how they get the 90 minute attack resistance and I guess what that means is that if a prisoner goes rogue and uses all the equipment available in his cell and attacks him for 90 minutes straight, he has been tested. to resist that so we even tried with a toilet and a sink as well as everything with the kitchen sink but we know we throw it too, who are they calling with this, the staff, it's not to deliver toilet bars because I I run. outside the bathroom, Rod, yeah, it's for medical emergencies or for someone in crisis, okay, so I'm alone in the cell, this is what it would be, I mean, it's still a prison, it feels like a prison, um, but there are some that you know, of really considered quality. of life features, I guess like the fact that we actually have a window here instead of bars, obviously there's not much to do here, but the main focus will probably be the computer, so we'll use it for education and then we will use it for entertainment because it also has a TV box attached, that is the shower, you have the drain, you have the toilet sink and a small shelf here, so now there are the cells for the workshops where the prisoners would go to improve their skills and the idea is that the prison has I contacted a lot of partner companies that work in the local area and they told me to teach prisoners who are in their home stretch the skills they need so that they can actually have a job ready for them when they get out of the prison, so this is the industries building, we are about to see an excavator simulator, this is basically a complete recreation of the interior of an excavator cat, so it is made by the real company, you have a seat, you have all the controls, you have a meta Quest headset. and then about 340 inch screens so try this, yes it feels like the real thing, there is even resistance in these joysticks so it's basically like they took all the internals and electronics from a real cat.

Digger gutted them and I put them in this room with a screen in front, oh yeah, there we go, that's me, oh my god, is it upstairs?, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, it really feels like it's inside, as if the seat were vibrating. I feel the engine and that really changes. The vibrations in the seat are phenomenal. I have it, I have it. It has all the physics that you would experience on a real machine, so yes, this is not a toy, it is a licensed simulator, which means that the prisoners are not using it to fool around, they will use it to get real grades to get out of these four walls with perspectives and walk through the rest of this building.

I couldn't believe how many of these workshops there were, we saw music workshops, barbering workshops, even classes. They teach prisoners how to make the optics that go inside the glasses. Well, it's time to get to the heart of the operation. How can we possibly have an electronic lock when we are already inside a six-step secure facility? It's a brilliant question and the reason we have this is because this area is critical, so what we have is the command room and we have the control room, so this is a restricted area where you have limited access even for the staff that work here and it is also Again, what we call a kind of citadel, you cannot afford to lose this area, this is where the cameras are operated, where the biometric data is processed, where the security center is for So you can see why it's heavily guarded, this is the nerve center.

Yes, absolutely, this is a very real operational control room of the entire prison, it is where the 1,700 cameras are controlled, but it is a smart system that the operator uses and they program it to move the cameras and the cameras appear on the screen where they need them at whatever time of day they need them, so when someone walks into this facility you're going to tell them, look, there are absolutely 1,700 cameras here and they're recording all the time, yes, absolutely, and now that that's done, let's figure out how it works All this. You've played with the experiences of someone actually serving their sentence here, where are you roughly in your sentence?

Well, I have four years left and I've served most of them and how do you feel about this place in general? It's not what I imagined it was much better than I imagined. I have done English in education, the education department was excellent and when you say you have done English, is there anyone here who wants to teach it? Yes, someone is teaching English, yes, and that's a real qualification you can take yes, it's a real qualification yes, yes, right, what about contact with the outside

world

? You feel like you can keep in touch. Yes Yes Yes Yes.

You have an email. Friends of a prisoner's family can email me. I can't send photos for obvious reasons and you can send a long email to Essa if you want. If someone subscribes to UniFi Messenger, which is a secure messaging service on your internal computer in your CMS, you can send and receive instant text messages. messages just like you would on WhatsApp, one of the things I imagine would be quite difficult is being completely without a phone without internet, if you think you can't I'll just Google it, they've taken that away from me completely so here's how . difficult, so it's been years since you've been able to Google something, it's been almost two years, yeah if I want to find something I have to call my daughter or call my sister or someone and they do it for me, do you would like?

I had more to do I feel like there is a lot to do I'm not bored at all. I have a lot to learn Spanish. I've moved on to translating on the computer, so it's actually the Internet, so you and your cell phone when they do it. you know, locking yourself in, you're learning Spanish on it, yeah, I'm learning Spanish, yeah, you're really taking this as a way to expand it 100%, yeah, yeah, there's really not enough time to do everything I want to do. There are a lot of things here that I didn't expect and I've learned a lot more than I expected, so I hope you felt the same and I'll see you in the next one.