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Taping inmate calls routine at many jails
By Baltimore Sun
Published: 10/16/2008

MARYLAND - The phone call from the Baltimore County Detention Center, like those from most local jails, begins with a notice that the recipient must accept the charges if the call from an inmate is to go through. But these days, there's another warning: "This call is from the correctional institution and is subject to monitoring and recording."

Taping inmates' telephone calls is the latest in a series of precautions that local wardens have taken to prevent contraband from making its way into jails and to deal with the increasingly pressing problems of gang violence, witness intimidation and prisoners orchestrating crime from behind bars. Read more.

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