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Dog Sniffing Cell Phones Out In Jails
By projo.com
Published: 07/12/2010

CRANSTON — The cell phone has become an indispensable tool of modern life. It lets you call from the grocery to see if it was skim or 1-percent milk you were suppose to buy, or let mom know you’re staying after school.

But one place where they don’t want you to be able to reach out and touch someone is prison, where, for administrators, the relentless miniaturization of the cell phone has become an increasing concern.

California seized 4,000 illicit cell phones from its prisons in 2009. In the past five years, prisoners in Maryland and Tennessee used them to help organize murders and plan escapes. In Texas, a death-row inmate used a smuggled cell phone to make death threats against a state senator.

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