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| Contraband: Jail finds phones, prison finds drugs |
| By moultrieobserver.com- Alan Mauldin |
| Published: 01/28/2016 |
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MOULTRIE — When Colquitt County moved its state prisoners three years ago from Veterans Parkway to the former state probation facility at Spence Field a team of Georgia correctional officers came down to help. They brought along a detector that alerts to cell phones to help the new Colquitt County Correctional Institution get a mostly cell-phone-free opening. It worked as the officers found a number of cell phones. But one inmate who made it through the detector and the watchful eyes of state personnel was tripped up when a local correctional officer noticed his unusual watch and took a closer look. It turned out to be a watch with a built-in cell phone, Warden Billy Howell said. Since July employees at the prison have found about 110 cell phones and charged inmates caught with them. Likewise, Colquitt County Jail officials have seized about 30 cells since Thanksgiving. Read More. |
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