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Inmates smuggle phones with ease
By NPR
Published: 10/13/2006

BALTIMORE, MD - Hundreds, and perhaps even thousands, of inmates inside U.S. prisons have gotten ahold of cell phones. Many spend the evenings chatting away in their cells. It's a problem many prison officials don't want to talk about. That's because what's more troubling than what the inmates are doing with the cell phones is how they got them in the first place.

Three weeks ago, Maryland state Sen. Ed DeGrange was sitting at his desk when the phone rang. The caller was an inmate from a nearby prison with a list of complaints. But he wasn't calling from the prison pay phone. He was calling from a mobile phone in his cell. Read more.

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