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Cell Phones on Texas Death Row

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"Two more cell phones found on Death Row," is the AP report in today's Fort Worth Star-Telegram.Prison officers guarding Death Row in Livingston recovered two more contraband cellphones Wednesday, one of them with the price tag still attached.The first phone was spotted in the trash about midday Tuesday. Officers think an inmate tried to discard it for fear of being caught, said Michelle Lyons, a prison system spokeswoman.The second phone was found at 2:30 p.m. in the cell of inmate Raphael Holiday as he tried to flush it down the toilet, Lyons said.Both phones were turned over to the Office of the Inspector General, which will investigate how they were smuggled into the prison, Lyons said. That office will try to determine the owner of the phone found in the trash, she added...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 20, 2008 (boomark / email).