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Texas death row contraband problems not unique

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Texans were outraged recently when death row inmates were found in possession of smuggled cell phones, chargers, and related equipment - including one used to call and threaten a prominent state senator - but it could be worse: In Kenya, they recently found a death row inmate with a contraband laptop and modem allowing internet access which he used to perpetrate "an elaborate scam" in the outside world. Indeed, "So lucrative is the trade in contraband within the prison that warders compete to be assigned sentry duties in Block G [death row] which houses the ?bazaar? to earn bribes."

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 03, 2008 (boomark / email).

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