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| Banned cellphones flood UK jail |
| By The Edinburgh News |
| Published: 08/21/2006 |
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SAUGHTON, ENGLAND - Mobile phones are threatening to rival drugs as the most sought-after contraband in Saughton Prison. The shrinking size of handsets is making it easier for visitors to smuggle them into the jail and prisoners to use them once inside. Inmates are thought to be using them to commit crimes, such as threatening witnesses, and to access pornographic and other internet sites. With the phone now seen as a "must have" by many of the jail's 786 prisoners, the number of phones taken from them has jumped from just three a year within the space of two years. Prison officers are now confiscating mobiles, on average, twice a week at Saughton after a big rise in seizures inside the high-security jail...Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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