This Gives Cellphones A New Meaning
Texas prison officials blame influx of cellphones on poor staffing, surveillance
10:50 PM CDT on Tuesday, October 21, 2008
By EMILY RAMSHAW / The Dallas Morning News
eramshaw@dallasnews.com
AUSTIN – Poor surveillance, inadequate staffing and underpaid, easily corrupted corrections guards have allowed Texas prison inmates to easily obtain phones and other contraband, criminal justice officials acknowledged Tuesday, the day after three cellphones were recovered from death row.
One of these phones logged 2,800 calls over the last month and was used by a convicted murderer to make threatening calls to state Sen. John Whitmire, who said at an emergency hearing Tuesday that he was "disgusted" with top prison officials.
"We're talking about life and death, about a death-row inmate calling me and talking about my daughters," said Mr. Whitmire, D-Houston. "It is more secure at the Harris County Courthouse, in Houston traffic court, than it is" on death row.
Texas' 156,000 inmates remained on lockdown Tuesday after Monday's revelation that a guard had accepted a bribe to get murderer Richard Tabler a cellphone. .
Everybody's got a cellphone
I think what happen there was Crazy, And then they Lock everyone down for it is even More crazier!
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