October 7, 2003
Mobiles in top security prison
Four mobiles were discovered hidden by inmates at one of Britain's top security prisons, claims a report by the chief inspector of prisons on Belmarsh, in south-east London, according to the BBC.
"Mobile phones are banned from the jail because inmates could use them to plan their escape or run criminal empires from inside.
The inspectors noted: "One prisoner found in possession of the phone admitted that he had concealed it in his underpants during a strip search - searchers had failed to lift the upper clothing to reveal the extra pair of underpants where it was hidden."
For other incidents reported from around the world, on cell phones being smuggled into jails, see previous posts in Textually.org:
-- Staying well connected in jail. Recently a mafia don in the Kolkata prison of New Delhi, planned the killing of Delhi Police officers by communicating with his partners in Dubai via text messaging.
‘‘Most of the big gangsters currently in jail use the mobile phone to plan and execute their operations outside" according to a senior police official.
-- Convict ran drug ring from prison. A Canadian-born encarcerated convicted criminal, used a cell phone smuggled into the penitentiary to organize a cocaine run from Miami to Canada.
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