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Contraband Cell Phones On The Rise In U.S. Prisons
Loaded on July 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2005, page 24
Though drugs and weapons have long been a bane to prison officials everywhere, prisons around the country and the world are now experiencing a new contraband problem: cellular telephones.Texas prison officials learned how serious the problem was during a months-long undercover investigation that began in the fall of 2003. ...
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