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On the relationship between high employee turnover and contraband smuggling at TDCJ

The issue of contraband is back on center stage these days at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after the latest escape was facilitated by a prisoner using an illegal cellphone and communicating through Facebook. Texas prison chief Brad Livingston has responded by calling for a test of cell-phone jamming technology, however the Attorney General has already told the agency that installing jammers on a permanent basis would require a change in federal communications law first enacted in the 1930s. Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison carried legislation to allow prisons to use such jammers last year, but it ultimately failed and there's little reason to believe its immediate prospects have changed.The biggest source of contraband admitted into Texas prisons, sad to say, are a minority of TDCJ correctional officers and staff who facilitate such transactions with the outside world...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 16, 2011 (boomark / email).