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Mike Ward's Inside Story

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Mike Ward broke the story on the smuggled cell phone on Texas death row.  In today's Austin American-Statesman he writes, "A reporter's account of the prison cell phone controversy."  Here's an extended excerpt from the beginning:I'm returning the medal.   On Tuesday, after a Senate Criminal Justice Committee hearing on the controversy over cell phones in prisons, Oliver Bell, the chairman of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, approached me with a pewter-color medal. Thanks for your cooperation with the two-week investigation into how death row convict Richard Lee Tabler got a cell phone, Bell said, shaking my hand. "Presented by the chairman for outstanding performance," the medal says...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 23, 2008 (boomark / email).