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| High hopes phone call monitoring |
| By Radio New Zealand |
| Published: 02/04/2008 |
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NEW ZEALAND - All prisoners' calls from the new Otago Corrections Facility in November and December were recorded and randomly monitored. The phone-tapping scheme was allowed under changes to the Corrections Act and will be introduced at other prisons. The Otago prison's manager, Jack Harrison, says the trial revealed that prisoners were planning gang activities, drug crimes and robberies, and charges have been laid. Mr Harrison says he was surprised that so many prisoners were caught planning crimes because they were warned at the beginning of each call that they were being recorded. He says calls to lawyers and government agencies are exempt from monitoring. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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