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Ohio prisons cracking down on smuggled cellphones
By limaohio.com
Published: 04/28/2014

LEBANON — The state prisons agency said it is cracking down on smuggled cellphones by buying electronic detection equipment.

It has spent more than $300,000 in the past year on the detectors, which are being used in the state’s 28 prison facilities and four regional parole offices.

Inmates are not allowed to possess cellphones. Traditional detection methods turned up 483 cellphones in Ohio prisons last year, but many more likely go undetected, The Dayton Daily News reported.

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