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| Board approves phones for inmates |
| By American-Statesman |
| Published: 01/24/2008 |
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TEXAS - Texas junked its historic ban on pay phones in state prisons Wednesday as officials took a first step toward getting cutting-edge technology that could keep convicts from using phones to plot new crimes from behind bars. Without debate or dissent, the prison system's governing board unanimously approved a rule change to allow eligible convicts up to 120 minutes per month of call time — a maximum 15 minutes per call. With about 120,000 convicts expected to be allowed to make calls — those in solitary confinement and disciplinary cells would not be eligible — that could mean 4,000 phones in Texas' 106 prisons. The pay phone system would use personal biometric identifiers, such as fingerprints, retina scans or voice recognition, to allow only approved convicts to make calls from dayrooms in their cellblocks, in dorms and at other locations inside prisons. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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