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Possession of Cell Phone Doesn’t Violate Nevada Escape Device Statute
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2013, page 48
The Nevada Supreme Court has held that a statute prohibiting prisoners from possessing escape devices does not encompass possession of a contraband cell phone.Pursuant to NRS 212.093(1), prisoners are prohibited from having “any key, picklock, bolt cutters, wire cutters, saw, digging tool, rope, ladder, hook or any other tool …
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