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Exercise bike - pic credit Michael B Flickr Creative CommonsPrisoners take to exercise bikes to get out of jail faster
Prisoners in a jail in Brazil will have a day shaved from their sentence for every 16 hours they spend pedalling on a stationary bike rigged up to a generator.
The generators power lightbulbs in Santa Rita do Sapucai prison.
According to a report in the Jornal Nacional, the city's judge instated the policy, but prison only has two bikes so far. The paper says that at the moment, a full day can power six lightbulbs, but doesn't say how long for.
Prisoners are so keen to sign up though, that the prison will install another eight bikes.
Judge Jose Henrique Mallmann told the paper that he got the idea from reading about a similar programme in Arizona on the Internet.
At Tent City Jail in Phoenix, female inmates could watch an hour of television from pedalling for an hour, under a system dubbed 'Pedal Vision'.
There are fringe benefits too; one prisoner in Santa Rita do Sapucai prison has reported losing 'about four pounds'.
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- chrisonabike 11 min 43 sec ago
Wonder if the defence was "one slip in a lifetime of safe driving" and "they're very sorry" or whether they made use of the Incompetence Paradox?
- the little onion 24 min 17 sec ago
is that the Richard LIttlejohn who writes a column for the Daily Mail, often about migration issues, from his home in Florida?
- nordog 29 min 59 sec ago
I bet Singleton & Morrestin Hospitals noticed a reduction in injured persons.
- Capt Sisko 37 min 15 sec ago
I can't comment on how easy it is to change the batteries on the Fly 12, but I have just changed one on the rearward Fly 6 CE (Gen 2). The only...
- OldRidgeback 2 hours 6 min ago
It doesn't seem to be the most efficient piece of design. But I don't see why the police should bother about it, given that it's highly unlikely to...
- chrisonabike 2 hours 30 min ago
Have addicts been reduced to baartering for drugs?
- lesterama 2 hours 32 min ago
It was only the Euros, after all - and some epic racing across the categories
- HoarseMann 2 hours 38 min ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crr97dl4740o Mother and child escaped unharmed; unclear who was driving.
- mark1a 11 hours 47 min ago
I understand what you're saying, but I think when you get north of £10k, for the average amateur road.cc reader who maybe in the market for a so...
- brooksby 6 hours 35 min ago
They (wheelywheely) haven't been seen for ages- did they get banned?
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What a great story - Jailbreak by bicycle..
Anyway it got me thinking, you wouldn't be too keen going to any spin classes in any gyms in Brazil - imagine the shame of being shown up by some ex-con covered in tattoos.
Also, have Specialized not considered sponsoring a knife amnesty in prisons - hand in a Shiv for a time trial bike.
Then, if a certain Texan multi Tour de France winner were to be sent down by USADA, he'd be back out in no time - his sentence would be as short as the Spanish team mate that he got on so well with a couple of years ago.
The best idea though came from a colleague of mine who said, maybe unbeknownst to them they're powering the generator for the electric chair!
16hours on a turbo? Should get out a week early for that kind of dedication
This is Charlie Brooker's '15 Million Merits' come to life!
Probably energy saving bulbs.
Just what you need, fitter criminals back on the streets sooner