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A Cell Phone on Texas Death Row

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"Hundreds of calls from death row; now a call to action," is Mike Ward's report in today's Austin American-Statesman.On Monday morning, authorities busted Richard Lee Tabler in his death row cell and charged him with possession of the phone. Investigators said more than 2,800 calls were made on the phone during the past month alone. Authorities suspect that at least nine other inmates on death row may have used the phone to make calls ? more than 300 by one convict alone. In response, Gov. Rick Perry ordered that the entire prison system be locked down and that all inmates, staff and visitors be searched for contraband. He also ordered a zero-tolerance policy on all contraband inside Texas' prison system. Perry's office said a guard may have accepted a bribe to deliver a cell phone to Tabler...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 21, 2008 (boomark / email).