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Outlawed, Cellphones Are Thriving in Prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Outlawed, Cellphones Are Thriving in Prisons By KIM SEVERSON and ROBBIE BROWN Published: January 2, 2011 NY Times ATLANTA ? A counterfeiter at a Georgia state prison ticks off the remaining days of his three-year sentence on his Facebook page. He has 91 digital ?friends.? Like many of his fellow inmates, he plays the online games FarmVille and Street Wars. He does it all on a Samsung smartphone, which he says he bought from a guard. And he used the same phone to help organize a short strike among inmates at several Georgia prisons last month. 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...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 03, 2011 (boomark / email).