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| How did that inmate get a smartphone in the ‘hoosegow?’ |
| By .washingtonpost.com - Del Quentin Wilber |
| Published: 03/20/2012 |
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How does an inmate have a smartphone in the D.C. jail, where he appears to be tweeting and Facebooking to his heart’s content? That’s a good question, and one that several readers and Tweeters have asked me since my story about an accused drug kingpin at the D.C. jail ran online and in Saturday’s paper. The Post sought to interview Thomas Faust, director of the D.C. Department of Corrections, but that request was declined by his spokeswoman, Sylvia Lane. Lane also declined to provide statistics on the number of smartphones seized at the D.C. jail. (We will be filing a public records request today for that information.) Cell phone use by prisoners has grown dramatically across the nation in recent years. The problem concerns law enforcement officials because the devices allow inmates to run criminal organizations and intimidate witnesses from behind bars. The number of phones seized in federal prisons has surged — in 2010, authorities confiscated more than 8,000 such devices from inmates. In response, states and the federal government have passed laws banning possession of cell phones by inmates and making it a crime to give them one. Experts say the largest and most reliable source of such devices for inmates are corrupt guards, who can make a pretty profit in the jail “cell” trade. (Inmates have also been known to get such devices from visitors and in the mail.) Read More. |
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