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| Dozens of Officers, Inmates Charged in Georgia Prison Cellphone Scams |
| By nbcnews.com- Lisa Riordan Seville |
| Published: 01/25/2016 |
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Dozens of former and current corrections officers and inmates at a Georgia prison have been charged in a scheme that used smuggled cellphones to shake down civilians who believed they were in trouble for not reporting to jury duty. The operation at Autry State Prison was highlighted in an NBC News investigation into the soaring number of cellphones in cellblocks and how they were being used for extortion and fraud. There were more than 23,500 phone seized from Georgia prisons between 2014 to 2015 — and officials said many are smuggled in by prison employees. Prosecutors found that inmates used the phones to go on the Internet and collect information about fraud targets. Posing as law enforcement officers, they called the victims and threatened to have them arrested for missing jury duty unless they paid fines. Read More. |
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