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Contraband Update

The Texas prison system remains on lockdown searching for contraband; here are a few interesting details from recent MSM coverage.For starters, the Austin Statesman reports that searches have been expanded to staff leaving prisons as well as those entering them:At first, everyone going into Texas prisons was being searched as part of a massive contraband sweep. On Friday afternoon, officials ordered everyone leaving to be searched, too. The reason: At one Beaumont prison, officials reportedly found guards carrying out cell phone chargers ? presumably to keep inmates from getting caught with them. The same story has this astonishing tidbit letting us know that nearly 1/3 of the state's cell phone smuggling problem occurs in one unit:With more than 2,800 convicts and 776 employees, the Stiles Unit has the worst problem with smuggled cell phones...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 27, 2008 (boomark / email).