panopticon implodes, details at 11

t byfield tbyfield at panix.com
Tue Nov 9 08:36:58 PST 1999


<http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-prison-audit.html>


> Toll Records Aid in Audit of Prison Workers
>
> ALBANY, N.Y. -- For nearly a year and a half, state authorities
> say, dozens of prison employees spent their workdays tending to
> personal affairs and then falsified time sheets to cover their
> tracks. The scheme might never have been uncovered, the authorities
> say, had the employees not committed one minor blunder: using their
> state-issued E-ZPasses [windshield-mounted toll-payment system]
> and cellular phones wherever they went.

the article says that the employees swapped 'EZPasses' in order to obscure who was doing what. so, o theorists, was that 'an act of resistance'?

cheers, t



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