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| Cell Phone Starts Prison Uprising |
| By wkrg.com |
| Published: 04/07/2011 |
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ATMORE, Alabama - "It all started with a cell phone and an inmate-officer confrontation about a cell phone." From those cell phones News Five got images like this from inside Holman Prison during what corrections officials call a minor disturbance. "Guys do not want to give the cell phones up when they are caught with them," says Holman Supervisor Grantt Culliver. "Of course officers do not want to leave the guy with a cell phone so our assaults and our inmate-officer confrontations are coming from cell phones." What started as a fight between and inmate and an officer, escalated. "The inmates did not take over the unit. What actually happened, the supervisor came on the unit, the confrontation escalated and he chose to bring the officers back out of the unit and call for assistance." The corrections department version of a SWAT team arrived at the prison around 11:15. In half an hour the guards were back in control. "We don't like to have these confrontations and these situations but the training pays off and we handle it." Kim Thomas is the state Corrections Commissioner. He says technology is available to block or jam cell phones in prison but so far nothing is being done on a federal level to solve the problem. "They conduct basically criminal activity with their cell phones. From escape, to drug trade and then also confrontations like this exist." Read More. |
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