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Even death row not immune to contraband smuggling

There's no more secure environment in all of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice than death row, so how did murderers there get access to a cell phone used to make hundreds of calls including to Sen. John Whitmire whose family was implicitly threatened? Reports AP:Texas prison officials Monday arrested the mother of a death row inmate on charges she paid for cell phone minutes for an illegal phone that had been smuggled in to her condemned son. The inmate, Richard Tabler, shared the phone with nine other inmates, who made 2,800 calls in 30 days. Tabler called a key state senator, telling him he knew his daughters' names. While Lorraine Tabler, 60, was being arrested at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on charges of providing a prohibited item to an inmate, Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials confiscated a phone from her son, prisoner Richard Tabler...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 20, 2008 (boomark / email).