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"Outlawed, Cellphones Are Thriving in Prisons"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this fascinating new New York Times article.  Here are excerpts: Technology is changing life inside prisons across the country at the same rapid-fire pace it is changing life outside.  A smartphone hidden under a mattress is the modern-day file inside a cake. ?This kind of thing was bound to happen,? said Martin F. Horn, a former commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction who teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.  ?The physical boundaries that we thought protected us no longer work.? Although prison officials have long battled illegal cellphones, smartphones have changed the game.  With Internet access, a prisoner can call up phone directories, maps and photographs for criminal purposes, corrections officials and prison security experts say...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 02, 2011 (boomark / email).