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| Officials try to stay step ahead of smugglers |
| By Columbian |
| Published: 01/19/2009 |
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WASHINGTON - Let’s suppose someone smuggles a cell phone into a prison — they’re worth about $1,000 on the black market in some hard-core lockups. Maybe the inmate with the phone wants to escape, so he takes covert photos of the fences and alarms, or even a video, and sends the images to accomplices outside. Perhaps the inmate makes a deal for someone to drop off illegal drugs he’ll sell to other prisoners. Or maybe the inmate uses the phone to call and threaten someone who testified against him — or to get someone to beat up the witness. Not good scenarios, which is why Larch Corrections Center, a minimum-security prison five miles east of Hockinson, is one of 15 prisons in Washington that are working to find contraband cell phones. There’s no cell phone service at Larch, which now houses 387 male inmates, said Superintendent Patricia Gorman. But the somewhat remote area may get cell coverage someday. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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