My clear prison inmate use approved TV

[ultralux88]

I finally got around to combining all the video clips I shot into one and uploading it. Not the best video in the world, but it is a very interesting TV. It is brand new and so this really is the unboxing of the TV, its never been used before I got it. Right now I have an antenna on it (there's no easy way to get cable run into my bedroom without running a super long cable from across the loft outside my bedroom) and it sits facing my bed on one of my bedside tables. It makes a perfect bedroom TV. Now I jut need a tiny BluRay player so I can watch movies on it.

 

[constellation86]

Cool case but why no speakers? Might as well just be a computer monitor.

 

[tase]

I actually found a CRT inmate TV at Arc Thrift Store at 1405 Cortez St, Denver CO about a year ago.

I didn't buy it. It was creepy to me that the inmate's number was scratched into the side of the casing. I wish I still had a picture of it. I'll have to check to see if I posted it on Twitter.

 

[ultralux88]

I've see. The CRT models on eBay and YouTube, the lack of speakers is to prevent the tv volume from becoming an issue. The prison wants you using the included headphones. I have a set of non powered speakers on it now. Not as loud as the internal ones would have been but loud enough to be heard everywhere I care to be while watching it. My alarm clock has an inmates number engraved on it.

 

[arh1953]

Great find, ultralux88!

Zenith made a clear plastic model intended for sale in the mainstream market, they had three or four tints. I don't think it was a big seller though.

 

[Anachronism]

I sure don't recall anything like that entering the Brig at Quantico!

 

[ultralux88]

Its a recent thing, one of the many things that bring the criticism that we are too kind and generous to those we are supposed to be punishing. I'm not sure our prisons are working out well considering the amount of chrome and other BS that goes on in them. I tend to feel that Sheriff Joe in Arizona has the better idea, and nothing is tolerated there, more of an old fashioned prion experience which I think tended to be more effective that what goes on today.

 

[countryford]

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I tend to feel that Sheriff Joe in Arizona has the better idea, and nothing is tolerated there, more of an old fashioned prion experience which I think tended to be more effective that what goes on today.




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While I think Sheriff Joe has the right idea, he is also just a sheriff of a county jail. Whole different ballgame than a prison. Typically the people that are at a county jail are there for a short stay. Once a person is convicted of a crime and sentenced they go from a jail to a prison. At prison is where they actually serve the time for the crime.