<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Smuggled cell phone Archives - meshDETECT® Blog</title>
	<atom:link href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/tag/smuggled-cell-phone/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/tag/smuggled-cell-phone/</link>
	<description>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions &#8482;</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:02:42 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en-US</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>
	hourly	</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>
	1	</sy:updateFrequency>
	

<image>
	<url>https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/meshDETECT-registered-logo-120x120.jpg</url>
	<title>Smuggled cell phone Archives - meshDETECT® Blog</title>
	<link>https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/tag/smuggled-cell-phone/</link>
	<width>32</width>
	<height>32</height>
</image> 
	<item>
		<title>Contraband Cell Phones Prison System&#8217;s Greatest Threat?</title>
		<link>https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/11/29/contraband-cell-phones-prison-systems-greatest-threat/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Prison Cell Phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brian owens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraband cell phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[georgia department of corrections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smuggled cell phone]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prisoncellphones.com/blog/?p=787</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p>A very interesting interview with the Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner, Brian Owens on the problem of contraband cell phones in prisons. Provocative quotes from the interview: &#8220;Cell phones in prison are simply a matter of power, money and gangs.&#8221; &#8220;Illegal cell-phone use in Georgia prisons has developed to &#8220;epidemic&#8221; proportions and is now the [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/11/29/contraband-cell-phones-prison-systems-greatest-threat/">Contraband Cell Phones Prison System&#8217;s Greatest Threat?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p><em>A very interesting interview with the Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner, Brian Owens on the problem of contraband cell phones in prisons.</em></p>
<p>Provocative quotes from the interview:</p>
<p>&#8220;Cell phones in prison are simply a matter of power, money and gangs.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Illegal cell-phone use in Georgia prisons has developed to &#8220;epidemic&#8221; proportions and is now the system&#8217;s greatest safety threat.&#8221;</p>
<p>Interestingly, the interview did not include any discussion of deploying demand-side solutions such as a secure prison cell phone solution to reduce the contraband value of smuggled cell phones.</p>
<p><object id="flashObj" width="486" height="412" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=1299378906001&amp;playerID=34757277001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAB_xxVak~,K3e9TjBNSX947HCz-k7IdHf_1wF7vHmk&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=1299378906001&amp;playerID=34757277001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAB_xxVak~,K3e9TjBNSX947HCz-k7IdHf_1wF7vHmk&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="486" height="412" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" swliveconnect="true" allowscriptaccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" /></object></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/11/29/contraband-cell-phones-prison-systems-greatest-threat/">Contraband Cell Phones Prison System&#8217;s Greatest Threat?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Prison Fight Blamed on &#8216;Illegal Cell Phones&#8217;</title>
		<link>https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/11/22/prison-fight-blamed-on-illegal-cell-phones/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Prison Cell Phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gang activity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lockdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smuggled cell phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telfair state prison]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prisoncellphones.com/blog/?p=767</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p>Contraband cell phones are being blamed for this incident in a Georgia prison. According to the prison commissioner, &#8220;Every day we fight the battle of keeping cell phones and other contraband out of our facilities. While some believe supplying an inmate with a cell phone is useful to contact family and friends, in most cases, [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/11/22/prison-fight-blamed-on-illegal-cell-phones/">Prison Fight Blamed on &#8216;Illegal Cell Phones&#8217;</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p><a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/prison-fight-over-cell-phones.jpg"><img decoding="async" src="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/prison-fight-over-cell-phones-300x164.jpg" alt="" title="prison-fight-over-cell-phones" width="300" height="164" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-768" /></a><em>Contraband cell phones are being blamed for this incident in a Georgia prison. </p>
<p>According to the prison commissioner, &#8220;Every day we fight the battle of keeping cell phones and other contraband out of our facilities. While some believe supplying an inmate with a cell phone is useful to contact family and friends, in most cases, the opposite is proven. Inmates are using cell phones to commit additional crimes and carry out gang activity. This incident also illustrates the physical dangers of cell phones in prisons. By supplying an inmate with a cell phone, the safety of everyone at the facility is jeopardized.&#8221;</p>
<p>While is is true that smuggled cell phones in prisons are unmonitored, unsecured and inappropriately used, the meshDETECT secure prison cell phone solution provides all the security and forensic capabilities of traditional prison land-line phones. No calls, other than to approved parties, can be made. There is no reason for one prisoner to fight to take another&#8217;s cell phone because it can not be used to call unapproved phone numbers.</em></p>
<p>The state Department of Corrections says &#8220;illegal cell phones&#8221; in prison were the cause of Monday night&#8217;s fight at the Telfair State Prison.</p>
<p>Two dorms are still on lockdown after a major fight, according to Georgia Department of Corrections spokeswoman Gwendolyn Hogan.</p>
<p>She says three inmates were taken to the hospital, and two are in stable condition.</p>
<p>According to the news release, state Commissioner Brian Owens said,  &#8220;This incident brings to light the serious dangers of cell phones in our prison system.</p>
<p>&#8220;Every day we fight the battle of keeping cell phones and other contraband out of our facilities. While some believe supplying an inmate with a cell phone is useful to contact family and friends, in most cases, the opposite is proven. Inmates are using cell phones to commit additional crimes and carry out gang activity. This incident also illustrates the physical dangers of cell phones in prisons. By supplying an inmate with a cell phone, the safety of everyone at the facility is jeopardized,&#8221; added Owens.</p>
<p>According to the news release, it&#8217;s illegal for Georgia prison inmates to possess telecommunications devices, and it&#8217;s illegal for anyone else to give them one.</p>
<p>The penalty is one to five years in prison.</p>
<p>The news release did not explain the role of cell phones in the fight and Hogan did not return phone calls from 13WMAZ.</p>
<p>Hogan says one staff member suffered a leg injury during the fight, and that officials have the prison under control.</p>
<p>She also says no inmates escaped.</p>
<p>A dispatcher with the Telfair County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says they were called to the prison around 7 p.m., but had no further information. The Dodge County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says they were also called to assist at the prison.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.13wmaz.com/news/local/article/153170/153/Telfair-Prison-Fight-Blamed-on-Illegal-Cell-Phones-" target="_blank">Source</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/11/22/prison-fight-blamed-on-illegal-cell-phones/">Prison Fight Blamed on &#8216;Illegal Cell Phones&#8217;</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Gangs And Smuggled Cell Phones Grow in Idaho</title>
		<link>https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/11/20/gangs-and-smuggled-cell-phones-grow-in-idaho/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Prison Cell Phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DOC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gangs in prison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maximum security prison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sim card]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smuggled cell phone]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prisoncellphones.com/blog/?p=757</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p>An interesting article about the growth of gangs in prison in Idaho and the increase in smuggled contraband cell phones as a result. Part of the strategy, as in other states such as California, is a legistative initiative to increase the penalty for smuggling cell phones. The article quotes an official, “We want to make [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/11/20/gangs-and-smuggled-cell-phones-grow-in-idaho/">Gangs And Smuggled Cell Phones Grow in Idaho</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p><a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/gangs-smuggle-cellphones-in-prison.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/gangs-smuggle-cellphones-in-prison-300x300.jpg" alt="" title="gangs-smuggle-cellphones-in-prison" width="300" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-758" /></a><em>An interesting article about the growth of gangs in prison in Idaho and the increase in smuggled contraband cell phones as a result. Part of the strategy, as in other states such as California, is a legistative initiative to increase the penalty for smuggling cell phones. The article quotes an official, “We want to make it a felony to introduce cellphones within a prison. If they can make calls without going through the monitored phone system, they can coordinate attacks, they can coordinate riots. They can continue to operate as a leader while they’re incarcerated.&#8221; The meshDETECT secure cell phone solution monitors all calls made through our cell phones.</em></p>
<p>Nearly half of the 392 inmates at Idaho’s maximum-security prison last month were identified as gang members. And of the 7,145 total prisoners at the state’s varied prisons and work centers, more than 18 percent — 1,311 — were identified as gang members. That’s up from about 16 percent in May 2010.</p>
<p>“It’s not a drastic increase, but we have definitely seen the numbers go up,” said Deputy Warden Tim Higgins, the Department of Correction’s longtime gang expert. “Every facility has gang members. Men, women, close custody, minimum security.”</p>
<p>Gang-related violence, reportedly on the decline in Canyon County and other communities in recent years, is a growing problem within the prison system.</p>
<p>“Eighty-four percent of all of our violent acts inside the prisons involved one or more gang members,” Higgins said. That statistic comes from a study at the end of 2008, he said, but the trend hasn’t abated.</p>
<p><strong>WORKING TOGETHER</strong></p>
<p>Spread among Idaho’s eight state-run prisons (two more are privately operated) and five community work centers, Higgins and the 27 IDOC investigators who focus on gangs have a lot to handle. And one of their chief challenges is to make sure incarcerated gang leaders can’t maintain their grip on communities from within prison walls.</p>
<p>That can be a daunting task, since those gang leaders have plenty of time and motivation to come up with creative ways to outwit their captors with smuggled cell phones or Facebook pages maintained in their names by friends or family outside prison.</p>
<p>IDOC investigators work closely with local law enforcement agencies to share intelligence and control the flow of information and contraband between inmates and free gang members.</p>
<p>One recent investigation started with intelligence gathered in a prison mailroom and eventually involved 13 agencies, two states and three years. Dubbed Operation Black Magic, it led to state and federal charges last spring against 30 members of the Brown Magic Clica, a gang active in eastern Oregon and Southwest Idaho.</p>
<p>Eight of those arrested were already in prison. The cases are at various stages in the court system.</p>
<p>“It started with a mailroom officer who intercepted a piece of mail about a gang-related hit that was going to happen in Nyssa,” Higgins said.</p>
<p>Investigators contacted local police, who warned the intended victim and worked with IDOC to monitor communication between gang members inside and outside prison. The Treasure Valley METRO Violent Crimes Task Force stepped in and unraveled a web of conspiracy and Clica crime.</p>
<p><strong>UNDER THE RADAR</strong></p>
<p>Prison gang numbers could be significantly higher than investigators know, Higgins said. Many gangs, like Brown Magic, operate in rural areas where law enforcement doesn’t have the manpower to track and document gang members.</p>
<p>Members of those gangs, sent to prison for drug crimes or other offenses, could slip under the prisons’ radar if they don’t sport telltale tattoos or brandish gang signs.</p>
<p>“More than 50 percent of the gang members fall into that category,” Higgins said.</p>
<p>Prison staff trained in the ways of gangs often can identify gang members through their behavior, he said. Even those whose skin advertises a gang affiliation are ultimately judged by their behavior, not their markings, he said.</p>
<p>“We track very closely all evidence of gang affiliation, but we try to avoid labeling people,” he said. “We believe somebody can change.”</p>
<p><strong>INTERMIXING AND ACCOUNTABILITY</strong></p>
<p>The keys to prison gang management and intelligence gathering, Higgins said, are vigilance, accountability and not segregating gang members.</p>
<p>Idaho inmates aren’t sorted by gang affiliation, he said, since that strengthens the cliques and traps those who want to break free.</p>
<p>Instead, he said, inmates are expected to mix whether they’re among rivals or people with no gang background.</p>
<p>And then they’re watched very closely.</p>
<p>“We have absolute zero tolerance,” he said. “If we see three suspected gang members having a meeting, we jump on it.”</p>
<p>Mixing prisoners and holding them accountable for their behavior has worked well in the state-run prisons, he said, but may not be the model in the private Idaho Correctional Center, where Idaho’s biggest problems with gang-related violence occur.</p>
<p><strong>ASSAULTS ABOUND</strong></p>
<p>Run by Corrections Corp. of America, ICC is Idaho’s largest prison, and nearly 19 percent of its 2,000-plus inmates are suspected gang members. The 11-year-old private prison has drawn numerous lawsuits from inmates, and a recent Associated Press investigation showed ICC prisoners are more than twice as likely to be assaulted as those at other Idaho prisons.</p>
<p>Higgins, who was promoted to deputy warden overseeing the state’s contract with private prisons just weeks ago, said ICC has improved its handling of gang violence. One of his primary focuses will be to help them improve more.</p>
<p>The private prison operates under contract with the state and is required to comply with Department of Correction policy on gang management, which is different from the approach in other states where Corrections Corp. runs prisons, he said.</p>
<p>Gang violence is still all too common in the state-run prisons, too, he said, but one positive sign is that gang-related assaults now tend to be less severe because inmates know they’ll be prosecuted if they cause serious injury. That’s especially true at ICC, he said, where the total number of assaults has held fairly steady but the brutality has eased.</p>
<p>“If it’s simple battery, it’s a misdemeanor, but with aggravated battery that’s some hard time, plus gang enhancements,” Higgins said, referring to the additional two years for gang-related crime called for under Idaho’s five-year-old gang enforcement law.</p>
<p>“I wish we could stop it totally, but it’s kind of built into their (gang) culture.”</p>
<p>With the new gang law and concerted investigative effort, Canyon County police and prosecutors have put a dent in once-soaring gang violence statistics. In Caldwell alone, police went from investigating 100 drive-by shootings in one month of 2004 to having about eight total in the past four years.</p>
<p>“We’ve certainly seen less of that than two years ago,” said Ellie Somoza, a deputy prosecutor who’s handled Canyon County gang cases for the past six years. “The felony crimes we’ve filed charges on have all resulted in felony convictions, and most of them have gone to state prison.”</p>
<p><strong>LEGISLATIVE WISH LISTS</strong></p>
<p>With the legislative session approaching, Higgins has two gang-related proposals he hopes will become law this winter. Somoza said her prime legislative objective, which likely will have to wait a year, is changing the law so any juvenile who commits a drive-by shooting would be automatically tried as an adult.</p>
<p>Although the incidents are down appreciably in the past few years, she said, Canyon County has seen far too many instances in which gangs chose underage shooters to spray homes or cars with bullets, on the assumption they won’t face more than a couple of years in juvenile detention.</p>
<p>“There’s nothing more dangerous than a drive-by shooting,” Somoza said. “It’s an absolute disregard for human life. You never know who’s inside and who’ll get hit.”</p>
<p>Underage shooters have proven to be particularly reckless, she said, recalling one Caldwell spree of 11 drive-bys in just a few days. The five juveniles involved chose their targets so casually, she said, that one of the houses they shot up was a rental where “someone just thought they remembered that someone from a rival gang used to live there.”</p>
<p>Higgins’ legislative wish list aims to make it harder for gangs to operate from prison.</p>
<p>One proposed bill, aimed at drying up a key money-making endeavor for prison gangs, would make it a felony to smuggle into prison or possess in prison more than a certain amount — probably 3 ounces — of tobacco.</p>
<p>“A can of Bugler (a brand of roll-your-own tobacco) you could buy for 99 cents on sale is worth $40 inside the prison,” he said. “And the gangs are nearly always in control of any big quantity of tobacco.”</p>
<p>The other law he hopes will pass this winter would fight one of the biggest problems gang investigators face: contraband phones.</p>
<p>“We want to make it a felony to introduce cellphones within a prison,” Higgins said. “If they can make calls without going through the monitored phone system, they can coordinate attacks, they can coordinate riots. They can continue to operate as a leader while they’re incarcerated.</p>
<p>“But right now if we catch them with a cellphone, it’s just a disciplinary offense, and it doesn’t mean anything,” he said.</p>
<p>In the past year, prison staff confiscated 18 cellphones from inmates, and there are likely numerous others they never found. Officials don’t know who smuggled them in or how, he said, but all of the devices found were prepaid phones that are hard to trace to individuals — especially since savvy prisoners conceal the SIM cards separately from the phones.</p>
<p>IDOC has some cellphone detection equipment, including a phone-sniffing dog at the medium-security Idaho State Correctional Institution. Officials hope to add more sophisticated equipment soon.</p>
<p>“It’s a huge deal,” Higgins said. “If we lock someone up in prison, we need to make sure they can’t continue to do business and do harm to the community. If they do, I take great offense at that.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/11/20/1886273/from-idaho-streets-to-idaho-cells.html" target="_blank">Source</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/11/20/gangs-and-smuggled-cell-phones-grow-in-idaho/">Gangs And Smuggled Cell Phones Grow in Idaho</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Trained Dogs Sniff Out Smuggled Cell Phones</title>
		<link>https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/11/11/trained-dogs-sniff-out-smuggled-cell-phones/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Prison Cell Phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[k9]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smuggled cell phone]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prisoncellphones.com/blog/?p=742</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p>A news video showing a K9 searching for contraband smuggled cell phones in a Florida jail.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/11/11/trained-dogs-sniff-out-smuggled-cell-phones/">Trained Dogs Sniff Out Smuggled Cell Phones</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p><em>A news video showing a K9 searching for contraband smuggled cell phones in a Florida jail.</em></p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bGAOKDG3v5o" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/11/11/trained-dogs-sniff-out-smuggled-cell-phones/">Trained Dogs Sniff Out Smuggled Cell Phones</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Is Wireless Airtime The New Prison Currency?</title>
		<link>https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/10/25/is-wireless-airtime-the-new-prison-currency/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Prison Cell Phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cigarettes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commodity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sim cards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smuggled cell phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wireless airtime]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prisoncellphones.com/blog/?p=695</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p>Traditionally, tobacco and stamps have been the preferred currency in prisons. But now it appears that in some prisons cellular airtime on contraband smuggled phones may be the new prison currency. According to this article, prisoners in a South African jail are using smuggled cell phones to run a scam to get wireless airtime. A [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/10/25/is-wireless-airtime-the-new-prison-currency/">Is Wireless Airtime The New Prison Currency?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p><em><a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/wireless-airtime-prison-currency.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/wireless-airtime-prison-currency-170x300.jpg" alt="" title="wireless-airtime-prison-currency" width="170" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-696" /></a>Traditionally, tobacco and stamps have been the preferred currency in prisons. But now it appears that in some prisons cellular airtime on contraband smuggled phones may be the new prison currency. According to this article, prisoners in a South African jail are using smuggled cell phones to run a scam to get wireless airtime. </p>
<p>A prison official states, &#8220;We have found the phones and sim cards in the strangest of places. Some of them hide it in their rectum, in bars of soap and in the bunk beds. Money is not allowed in prison, so airtime is the preferred currency. Cellphones and airtime were a sought-after commodity in prison with inmates trading these for drugs, cigarettes, food, toiletries, pornography and cash&#8221; </p>
<p>The problem with only addressing the supply side of the contraband cell phone problem is that demand still exists. Airtime, unlike tobacco, cannot be easily found or confiscated. Stored in a wireless network billing record and accessed via a tiny and easy to conceal SIM card, it is a &#8220;virtual&#8221; currency within a prison.The emergence of cellular airtime as a new form of prison currency can be preempted however by co-opting the demand for airtime through the provision of a secure prison cell phone solution such as meshDETECT.</em></p>
<p>Inmates at Westville Prison in Durban, posing as policemen, are believed to be behind a cellphone scam that has raked in thousands of rand.</p>
<p>Posing as either a Superintendent Naidoo or a Warrant Officer Reddy, the prisoner calls the victim and warns them they either have outstanding traffic fines or a warrant has been issued for their arrest. They are then ordered to pay or go to jail.</p>
<p>A senior warder at the prison told the Daily News that inmates find their victims through advertisements, articles, happenings and classified columns in magazines and newspapers.</p>
<p>The Daily News has spoken to three victims of the scam and this week three cellphones were seized from cells during daily raids, said the source.</p>
<p>The calls, according to the source, are generally made on a Friday and the victims are told they will be kept behind bars over the weekend if they do not pay up. Victims are either told to transfer money into a Money Market account at Checkers or to buy airtime and transfer it to the inmate’s cellphone. The source said that cellphones and airtime were a sought-after commodity in prison with inmates trading these for drugs, cigarettes, food, toiletries, pornography and cash.</p>
<p>He said cellphones were also used by the prisoners to run online businesses and sell airtime.</p>
<p>However, Department of Correctional Services spokesman, Nokuthula Zikhali, denied that the scam was perpetrated by prisoners at Westville. She said according to policy, offenders were not allowed to keep cellphones.</p>
<p>Zikhali said offenders could only make calls from telephone booths located outside their cells and at a specific time.</p>
<p>In the latest incident on Friday a Tongaat man was almost conned out of R1 800 by a “Warrant Officer Reddy”.</p>
<p>“Reddy” called the man and told him he had R1 800 in outstanding traffic fines and needed to deposit the money into a money market account. He threatened to go to his workplace and throw him in the back of a police van if he failed to comply.</p>
<p>Fortunately, the man smelt a rat and alerted the police. But this did not deter “Reddy”, who made more than 45 calls demanding the money.</p>
<p>“A policeman tracked the call to Westville Prison. When I confronted him (on the phone), he wished police luck in finding him. He said there were thousands of prisoners at Westville,” the victim said.</p>
<p>A Durban North estate agent, Zakia Peer Mahomed, said a “Warrant Officer Reddy” called her last week, telling her that her husband had been arrested for non payment of traffic fines. He told her to buy airtime and send it to his phone.</p>
<p>Then, he asked her to meet him at a supermarket in Phoenix to hand over R1500 in cash.</p>
<p>“He was very pushy. But, I caught on it was a scam. I called the police. They tried to track him but were unsuccessful.”</p>
<p>Durban North couple, Umberto, 75, and Roberta Josi, 74, were not so lucky. They were conned out of R1 650 by a “Superintendent Naidoo” earlier this year. Roberta said “Naidoo” called her husband and told him that Roberta had been arrested and was at Westville Prison. He demanded R1 650 for her immediate release.</p>
<p>“I was not at home at the time and my husband could not reach me on my cellphone. He was afraid and went to a supermarket where he bought the airtime. ‘Naidoo’ then called him back and asked him for the voucher number on the receipt. He then downloaded the airtime on to his phone.</p>
<p>“He then had the cheek to ask my husband to buy another R2 000 worth of airtime. By this time Umberto realised it was a scam. He reported it to the Durban North Police. A private investigator later told us the calls were being made from the prison.”</p>
<p>All three victims had their names and cellphone numbers published in various newspapers before they were called.</p>
<p>The prison source said cellphones and sim cards were smuggled into the prison through corrupt officials and relatives of the prisoners.</p>
<p>“We have found the phones and sim cards in the strangest of places. Some of them hide it in their rectum, in bars of soap and in the bunk beds. Money is not allowed in prison, so airtime is the preferred currency. Some of the prisoners have sim cards with over R5 000 airtime loaded on to it.”</p>
<p>Umesh Raga of the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services said the allegation of any inmate being in possession of a cellular phone was of concern since these were prohibited in correctional centres. He said they were unaware of the scam.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/scam-from-behind-bars-1.1164163" target="_blank">Source</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/10/25/is-wireless-airtime-the-new-prison-currency/">Is Wireless Airtime The New Prison Currency?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Prison Lawyer Smuggled Cell Phones In Shoes</title>
		<link>https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/09/13/prison-lawyer-smuggled-cell-phones-in-shoes/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Prison Cell Phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conspiracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial transactions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smuggled cell phone]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prisoncellphones.com/blog/?p=559</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p>His replacement will have big shoes to fill&#8230; TWO Leytonstone men have been convicted of plotting to smuggle drugs and mobile phones into a prison. Pentonville inmate Desmond Brown, 26, formerly of Montague Road, and his friend on the outside, Calvin Chance, 26, of Birch Grove, conspired with a corrupt solicitor to avoid detection. They [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/09/13/prison-lawyer-smuggled-cell-phones-in-shoes/">Prison Lawyer Smuggled Cell Phones In Shoes</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p><a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/lawyer-smuggles-cell-phones-in-shoes.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/lawyer-smuggles-cell-phones-in-shoes-214x300.jpg" alt="" title="lawyer-smuggles-cell-phones-in-shoes" width="214" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-560" /></a><em>His replacement will have big shoes to fill&#8230;</em></p>
<p>TWO Leytonstone men have been convicted of plotting to smuggle drugs and mobile phones into a prison.</p>
<p>Pentonville inmate Desmond Brown, 26, formerly of Montague Road, and his friend on the outside, Calvin Chance, 26, of Birch Grove, conspired with a corrupt solicitor to avoid detection.</p>
<p>They were also helped by Brown&#8217;s 24-year-old girlfriend Danielle Porter, of Barking, and another prisoner, David Sterling.</p>
<p>It is thought the group made nearly £20,000 dealing the items on the prison black market.</p>
<p>Blackfriars Crown Court heard how the plot was uncovered when solicitor Ritesh Brahmbhatt, 30, was searched during a visit to Sterling in September 2009.</p>
<p>He aroused suspicion when he was spotted wearing shoes which were several sizes too big for him.</p>
<p>Prison guards then discovered his footwear stuffed with of cannabis, mephedrone, and mobile phone parts. Drugs were also found in his trousers.</p>
<p>Similar items had previously been discovered during searches of Brown&#8217;s cells.</p>
<p>Brahmbhatt claimed he had been threatened at gunpoint a few days before by a man who demanded he smuggle the items.</p>
<p>But Islington Police uncovered a series of incriminating text messages and financial transactions linking Brahmbhatt with the prisoners.</p>
<p>A further link was established when Porter&#8217;s DNA was found on a mobile phone recovered during a search of the solicitor’s prison locker.</p>
<p>Brahmbhatt was again arrested while on bail when he was caught with a mobile phone during a visit to a prisoner in Winchester, Hampshire, in February this year.</p>
<p>The solicitor, of Wanstead Park Road in Redbridge, was the only one of the group to plead guilty to charges of conspiracy to smuggle items into a prison.</p>
<p>Detective Sergeant Simon Lowe said: “I thank the jury for their careful consideration and I hope that these verdicts act as a deterrent to others considering committing crimes like this.”</p>
<p>Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) lawyer Robert Hutchinson, said: “A painstaking investigation by police and a robust prosecution by the CPS meant that Brahmbhatt was today convicted alongside the very same individuals he once represented.”</p>
<p>All five have been remanded in custody and will be sentenced later this year at a date not set. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/9245133.LEYTONSTONE__Prison_smuggling_conspiracy_uncovered/" target="_blank">Source</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/09/13/prison-lawyer-smuggled-cell-phones-in-shoes/">Prison Lawyer Smuggled Cell Phones In Shoes</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Might Prison-Friendly Cell Phones Be A Wiser Response To Contraband Phones Smuggled Behind Bars?</title>
		<link>https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/09/09/might-prison-friendly-cell-phones-be-a-wiser-response-to-contraband-phones-smuggled-behind-bars/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Prison Cell Phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraband cell phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Douglas A. Berman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal bureau of prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gao report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moritz college of law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smuggled cell phone]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prisoncellphones.com/blog/?p=536</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p>Might prison-friendly cell phones be a wiser response to contraband phones smuggled behind bars? So writes Douglas A. Berman the Robert J. Watkins/Procter &#038; Gamble Professor of Law at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University on his blog Sentencing Law And Policy. Professor Berman, who attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/09/09/might-prison-friendly-cell-phones-be-a-wiser-response-to-contraband-phones-smuggled-behind-bars/">Might Prison-Friendly Cell Phones Be A Wiser Response To Contraband Phones Smuggled Behind Bars?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p><a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/prison-friendly-cell-phone.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/prison-friendly-cell-phone-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="prison-friendly-cell-phone" width="300" height="225" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-537" /></a>Might prison-friendly cell phones be a wiser response to contraband phones smuggled behind bars? So writes Douglas A. Berman the Robert J. Watkins/Procter &#038; Gamble Professor of Law at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University on his blog <a href="http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2011/09/might-prison-friendly-cell-phones-be-a-wiser-response-to-contraband-phones-smuggled-behind-bars.html" target="_blank">Sentencing Law And Policy</a>. </p>
<p>Professor Berman, who attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School and who&#8217;s principal teaching and research focus is in the area of criminal law and criminal sentencing, states in his blog post on the recent <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/09/07/prisoners-cell-phone-use-on-the-rise-at-fbop/" target="_blank">GAO report</a> on smuggled cell phones in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, &#8220;Though I fully understand the problems that contraband cell phones can pose in prisons, I do not understand why anyone would be confident that this new federal criminal law would be likely to be effective at addressing these problems (or would even ever get seriously enforced by federal prosecutors).&#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;As the title of my post hints, I think trying to provide inmates with controlled and closely monitored access to a prison-friendly cell phone may be a much more effective way to deal with a problem that seem likely to get even more profound if and when smart-phones and tablets and other small electronics become even cheaper and easier to pass to inmates who may just want no more than a cheap and easy way to keep up with the outside world.&#8221;</p>
<p>We couldn&#8217;t agree more. </p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/09/09/might-prison-friendly-cell-phones-be-a-wiser-response-to-contraband-phones-smuggled-behind-bars/">Might Prison-Friendly Cell Phones Be A Wiser Response To Contraband Phones Smuggled Behind Bars?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Prison Orderly Smuggling Cell Phones</title>
		<link>https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/09/03/prison-orderly-smuggling-cell-phones/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 21:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Prison Cell Phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal lockup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metropolitan correctional center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metropolitan detention center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smuggled cell phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smuggling]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prisoncellphones.com/blog/?p=509</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p>According to this article, the going rate for a smuggled contraband cell phone in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan is $2500. Update (7/03/12): An ex-jail official was sentenced yesterday to four months on the other side of the bars for helping an inmate smuggle cellphones and drugs into the federal lockup in downtown [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/09/03/prison-orderly-smuggling-cell-phones/">Prison Orderly Smuggling Cell Phones</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p><a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/prison-orderly-smuggling-cell-phone.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/prison-orderly-smuggling-cell-phone-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="prison-orderly-smuggling-cell-phone" width="300" height="225" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-510" /></a><em>According to this article, the going rate for a smuggled contraband cell phone in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan is $2500. </em></p>
<p><strong>Update (7/03/12):</strong> An ex-jail official was sentenced yesterday to four months on the other side of the bars for helping an inmate smuggle cellphones and drugs into the federal lockup in downtown Manhattan.</p>
<p>Nydia Ciancioso, a former case manager at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, sobbed in court as she apologized for taking $1,300 in payoffs to deliver envelopes of cash to a major drug defendant who was running the scheme.</p>
<p>Manhattan federal prosecutor Brian Jacobs said Ciancioso, who has a 6-year-old daughter and is divorcing her husband, had a “romantic relationship” with the inmate and sent him “e-mails of a romantic nature.”</p>
<p><strong>Update (1/22/12):</strong> During a hearing Wednesday in U.S. District Court, Nydia Ciancioso copped to a felony count related to her receipt of “unlawful gratuities” to smuggle cell phones and narcotics into the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where she began working in 1988. </p>
<p><strong>Original Story</strong></p>
<p>An imprisoned drug trafficker who once faced the federal death penalty is at the center of a criminal probe into the smuggling of contraband&#8211;including cell phones and narcotics&#8211;into the Manhattan jail that has housed some of the country’s highest profile inmates, The Smoking Gun has learned.</p>
<p>A Department of Justice probe has identified Jorge “Geo” Torres, 38, as the inmate who allegedly conspired with a Bureau of Prisons employee to smuggle items into the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan, where al Qaeda members, Mafia leaders, and violent drug kingpins are regularly housed.</p>
<p>The ongoing federal probe resulted in the mid-July arrest of Nydia Ciancioso, a 41-year-old BoP case manager, on a felony conspiracy charge. Ciancioso, who began working at the MCC in 1998, reportedly confessed her role in the smuggling operation when confronted by Justice Department investigators, according to a U.S. District Court criminal complaint.</p>
<p>Torres, who was viewed as a trusted inmate, worked as a prison orderly for Ciancioso. On July 15, the day of Ciancioso’s arrest, he was transferred across the river to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.</p>
<p>Ciancioso, agents reported, admitted receiving envelopes of cash from a relative of a coconspirator identified only as “Inmate-1.” Sources familiar with the smuggling probe identified the inmate as Torres. Ciancioso was arrested after accepting $2500&#8211;the going rate for a smuggled cell phone&#8211;from Torres’s sister-in-law, who was cooperating with federal investigators.</p>
<p>Ciancioso, a case manager since 2003, resigned from the BoP post following her arrest, according to her lawyer.</p>
<p>Since all inmate calls are recorded, the introduction of a cell phone into the MCC&#8211;or any other federal lockup&#8211;is of great concern to federal prison officials, who fear that a prisoner could use the device to engage in continuing criminal conduct. Torres, for example, used a phone in his possession to send text messages regarding the MCC smuggling operation.</p>
<p>Torres, seen in the above mug shot, entered the MCC in November 2006 following his arrest for his involvement in a Bronx-based narcotics trafficking ring. At the time, Torres told DEA agents that he was responsible for “cooking” about “one kilogram of powder cocaine into crack cocaine every three days,”  according to a prosecution filing.</p>
<p>Along with his role as a manager of the cocaine operation, Torres was charged with murdering a competing drug dealer who encroached on his gang’s territory. It was that allegation that exposed Torres and two codefendants to the federal death penalty.</p>
<p>Department of Justice officials, however, eventually opted not to pursue the death penalty against Torres and his cohorts. That decision likely played a role in Torres’s August 2009 decision to plead guilty to killing rival dealer Herbert Ortiz.</p>
<p>While all his codefendants have had their cases closed, Torres has yet to be sentenced&#8211;more than two years after entering his guilty plea. Before his recent transfer, Torres had spent more than 4 ½ years at the MCC, likely making him one of the facility’s longest-term residents.</p>
<p>A series of sentencing postponements kept Torres in the MCC, allowing him to allegedly run his smuggling operation while working as one of Ciancioso’s orderlies. Since such an extended delay in sentencing can often indicate that an inmate has decided to cooperate with authorities in a bid for leniency, a TSG reporter asked Torres’s lawyer whether his client&#8211;who is facing life in prison&#8211;had flipped.</p>
<p>However, attorney Andrew Patel declined to discuss Torres’s case. In fact, when first contacted, Patel was unaware of the ongoing MCC smuggling probe or that it had resulted in the arrest of a BoP case manager.</p>
<p>As of now, Torres is scheduled to be sentenced next Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan in the narcotics distribution case. Ciancioso has a court appearance set for September 14, by which time she is expected to be indicted by a federal grand jury.<br />
<a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/prison-smuggling-probe-564739" target="_blank"><br />
Source</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/09/03/prison-orderly-smuggling-cell-phones/">Prison Orderly Smuggling Cell Phones</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Guards Gave Jailed Terrorists Cell Phones for Cash</title>
		<link>https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/07/19/guards-gave-jailed-terrorists-cell-phones-for-cash/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Prison Cell Phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chargers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory cards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sim cards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smuggled cell phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorist]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prisoncellphones.com/blog/?p=347</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p>Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced that Israel would be toughening the conditions of imprisonment for terrorists but some jailors, it seems, did not “get the memo.” According to the Yisrael Hayom newspaper, two jailors have been caught smuggling cell phones to imprisoned terrorists. A third reported being offered a bribe for a similar action. One [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/07/19/guards-gave-jailed-terrorists-cell-phones-for-cash/">Guards Gave Jailed Terrorists Cell Phones for Cash</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p><a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/terrorist-cell-phone.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/terrorist-cell-phone-300x242.jpg" alt="" title="terrorist-cell-phone" width="300" height="242" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-349" /></a>Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced that Israel would be toughening the conditions of imprisonment for terrorists but some jailors, it seems, did not “get the memo.”<br />
According to the Yisrael Hayom newspaper, two jailors have been caught smuggling cell phones to imprisoned terrorists. A third reported being offered a bribe for a similar action. </p>
<p>One jailor was arrested recently and questioned by the Unit for Investigating Jailors on suspicion he smuggled cell phones to Hadarim Prison.</p>
<p>Another jailor, a former officer at the Ketziot Jail, has begun serving a jail sentence after confessing and being found guilty of smuggling cell phones to terrorists.</p>
<p>In addition, a jailor at Ne’er Sheva Prison reported that a certain security [i.e. terror, Ed.] prisoner offered him a sum of 150,000 shekels for assistance in smuggling in a cell phone.</p>
<p>Israel Prisons Service Commander Lt.-Gen. Aharon Franco has recently said that he intends to show zero tolerance toward personnel who collaborate with the smuggling.”</p>
<p>The terrorists have other creative means to get their hands on cell phones. In recent weeks, IPS has successfully stymied an attempt to smuggle 50 cell phones, 50 chargers and 50 SIM cards inside a delivery of vine leaves for terror prisoners at Ketziot.<br />
A family recently visiting a terrorist tried to smuggle two cell phones in the undergarments of the prisoner’s wife. Two matching batteries were placed in the belt buckles of his sons.</p>
<p>Another woman, aged 67, was caught at the gate to Ramon Prison with a cell phone in her brassiere.</p>
<p>Since January, a total of 76 phones, 55 chargers, 51 memory cards and 435 SIM cards were caught at the entrances to the prisons. </p>
<p>The IPS has instructed staff to carry out thorough checks on whoever enters the jails and is currently evaluated more advanced machines for scanning people who wish to enter. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145853" target="_blank">Source</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/07/19/guards-gave-jailed-terrorists-cell-phones-for-cash/">Guards Gave Jailed Terrorists Cell Phones for Cash</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Investigation Into Cell Phones In Prison</title>
		<link>https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/05/11/investigation-into-cell-phones-in-prison/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 18:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Prison Cell Phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prison cell phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smuggled cell phone]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prisoncellphones.com/blog/?p=150</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p>The following video is a short news report on the problem of smuggled prison cell phones in New Jersey. The report finds that shows that in the last 4 years, 620 contraband cell phones had been confiscated at one prison in New Jersey called Northern State. That&#8217;s more than double the number (295) found in [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/05/11/investigation-into-cell-phones-in-prison/">Investigation Into Cell Phones In Prison</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>meshDETECT, Secure Prison Cell Phone Solutions</p>
<p><a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/cell-phone-book.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/cell-phone-book-300x180.jpg" alt="" title="cell-phone-book" width="300" height="180" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-153" /></a><em>The following video is a short news report on the problem of smuggled prison cell phones in New Jersey. The report finds that shows that in the last 4 years, 620 contraband cell phones had been confiscated at one prison in New Jersey called Northern State. That&#8217;s more than double the number (295) found in New Jersey&#8217;s 12 other prisons combined. A former Northern State inmate says smuggled cell phones are easy to get on the inside, but not cheap. &#8220;$1,500, $1,000, $1,550, it all depends,&#8221; Simmons said&#8221;</em></p>
<p><object id="otvPlayer" width="400" height="268"><param name="movie" value="http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=&#038;station=wabc&#038;section=&#038;mediaId=8124076&#038;cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&#038;webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&#038;configPath=/util/&#038;site="/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="allowNetworking" value="all"/><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><embed id="otvPlayer" width="400" height="268" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"	allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" allowfullscreen="true"	src="http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=&#038;station=wabc&#038;section=&#038;mediaId=8124076&#038;cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&#038;webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&#038;configPath=/util/&#038;site="/></object></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog/2011/05/11/investigation-into-cell-phones-in-prison/">Investigation Into Cell Phones In Prison</a> appeared first on <a href="https://prisoncellphones.com/blog">meshDETECT® Blog</a>.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
			</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
