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| Officials worry about smuggled phones |
| By Sun Sentinel |
| Published: 02/09/2009 |
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FLORIDA - [Officers} have confiscated more than 100 mobile phones at the privately run prison at South Bay since mid-2007, setting off alarm bells in the county court system and the state Department of Corrections. "Cell phones in the hands of inmates, that's a major breach of security," said Kevin Dean, the state Correction Department's canine supervisor. With a cell phone, an inmate can plot an escape, harass a witness, set up drug deals. Inmates charged with cell phone possession, a felony, are arriving in a steady stream at the West County Courthouse in this sugar country town, one or two cases every day that Judge Nelson Bailey's court is in session. They're coming from the South Bay Correctional Facility, court officials said. The state prison, with 1,800 inmates, is managed by The GEO Group Inc., formerly Wackenhut Corrections Corp., based in Boca Raton. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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