New Jersey corrections officials have a new way of detecting certain contraband in prisons: cell phone-sniffing dogs. The Corrections Department's Canine Unit has trained several dogs to detect cell phones, even when they are turned off.
In the second seizure this week since a systemwide lockdown and search for contraband ended, Texas Department of Criminal Justice officers have found a phone inside the body of condemned inmate Hank Skinner, reports The Houston Chronicle. Two cell phone SIM cards were found hidden in Skinner's Bible during a routine search Friday afternoon of his cell at the Polunsky Unit near Livingston and ...
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. The Dallas Morning News reports. One of these phones logged 2,800 calls over the last month and was used by a convicted...
Cell phones smugglers in Florida prisons may end up spending up to five years in one under a new law enacted October 1, 2008 that makes the introduction of cell phones into prison a third degree felony. Cell phones smuggled into Florida prisons help inmates with everything from dealing drugs to plotting escapes. To sniff out the contraband devices, Florida has a special dog on duty. "Just like a d...
