prison cell phone

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Two american and texas flags waving in the wind, illustrating a jail cell phone bribery case
Prison Cell Phones

5 Charged in Jail Cell Phone Bribery Case

Another example of the corrosive effects of smuggled prison cell phones on prison guards: Three South Texas jailers and two others have been charged with conspiring to bribe public officials to smuggle cell phones into a detention center. Charged in a federal indictment unsealed in Corpus Christi on Wednesday are 47-year-old former Nueces County corrections officer Juanita Mendez, 26-year-old Brooks County corrections officer Jose Martinez and his 18-year-old colleague Juan Munoz. Also charged were two […]

Two small electronic devices on a wooden surface, illustrating high-tech detection of prison phones
Prison Cell Phones

Going High-Tech To Eliminate Prison Cell Phones

The dark gray device used to detect cell phones looks like an oversized walkie-talkie. When Scott Schober, president of a Metuchen technology company, flipped it on in an officer cafeteria at a New Jersey jail several months ago, a warning immediately flashed. “I turned around and walked out and said, ‘You’ve got phones in there,”‘ he said, describing the demonstration he gave for officials. “They basically said, ‘We’re not surprised.”‘ Cell phones are illegal in […]