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California Criminalizes Cell Phone Smuggling, Seeks Technology to Block Cell Phone Calls from Prisons
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2012, page 38
In April 2011, Matthew Cate, Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), announced that he intended to enlist the aid of companies that bid for the state’s lucrative prison phone service contract in an effort to stem the ever-increasing tide of unauthorized cell phone calls made by …
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