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Senate committee examines reasons for contraband smuggling

An emergency meeting of the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee today focused on how contraband gets into Texas prisons. Not many solutions were identified but the hearing underlined the scope of the problem.The most common disciplinary action against prisoners in TDCJ is for possessing contraband, said Sen. John Whitmire. Literally thousands of years are added onto prisoners' sentences annually, said Sen. Whitmire, because they were found with contraband. A whopping 52% of disciplinary actions are for contraband, said the senator, according to data compiled by his staff.After describing the details of his recent phone interaction with a death row inmate, Sen. Whitmire said that contraband smuggling "shall end today," but that seems like wishful thinking...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 21, 2008 (boomark / email).