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Cell Phones in the Prisons

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"Bills allowing prisons to jam cell-phone signals draw debate, by Tricia Bishop appears in the Sunday issue of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.When prosecutors revealed last month that a Baltimore man accused of using a contraband cell phone in jail to order the killing of a witness was again caught with an illegal phone behind bars, the judge's jaw dropped. He couldn't fathom how this kept happening. It's "amazing," said U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett. But jail administrators will tell you it's not. Cell phones are smuggled into prisons in Maryland and around the world by visitors, corrupt guards and, in Brazil, carrier pigeons. They're thrown over barrier walls, carried in body cavities and delivered by UPS...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).