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| Kentucky inmates gaining access to more cellphones |
| By courier-journal.com/ |
| Published: 04/16/2012 |
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Zachary Kilgore made and received dozens of cellphone calls last summer as he awaited his murder trial, allegedly telling a person on the other end to kill everybody who was going to testify against him, even children. And he did it all from inside Metro Corrections — using a cellphone smuggled to him by a jail employee, according to an internal investigation. Although cellphones are illegal for inmates to possess, the devices are being found in their hands at alarming rates across the country, with Kilgore’s case a prime example of the potential dangers. National officials say inmates are getting more ingenious: Cellphones have been put inside the soles of shoes, thrown over prison walls or launched through a pipe from a device called a potato cannon where inmates can pick them up during exercise periods. “It’s a major problem,” said George Camp, co-director of the Association of State Correctional Administrators. “The introduction of cellphones into both prison and jails really compromises safety of staff and inmates as well as the public at large.” In Kentucky, the number of cellphones confiscated from prison inmates climbed to more than 80 last year from only seven in 2006. During that same period, 30 Department of Corrections employees have been punished either for smuggling or attempting to smuggle the devices into a prison institution, spokeswoman Lisa Lamb said. Read More. |
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