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| Shakedown leads to phones, weapons |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 10/28/2008 |
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TEXAS - A systemwide shakedown of the huge Texas prison system is netting authorities more contraband than just illegal cell phones. Officers have turned up 61 weapons, 52 instances of tobacco products and 14 discoveries of money — all prohibited for the some 155,000 inmates in the state's 111 prisons. That's on top of the 120 phone and phone components like chargers found as the first full week of the inspections ended Monday. A statewide lockdown of the system began hours after death row inmate Richard Tabler was caught making a call from his cell. The phone had been traced to a series of calls that began earlier this month to state Sen. John Whitmire. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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