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| Illegal phones seized |
| By The Houston Chronicle |
| Published: 10/24/2008 |
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TEXAS - The number of contraband telephones and phone components uncovered during a systemwide lockdown of Texas' 111 prison more than doubled as the intense hunt entered a third full day Thursday. Officers had discovered 31 cell phones and 28 phone chargers in their shakedown prompted by a series of threatening phone calls made by a death row prisoner to a state senator. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons also said teams of corrections officers going through the prisons that house some 155,000 inmates came up with four tiny SIM cards, phone cards that allow information to be exchanged among phones. The lockdown began at 6 p.m. Monday, ordered by Gov. Rick Perry hours after death row inmate Richard Tabler was caught making a call from his cell. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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