Prisons See Increase In Cell Phone Smuggling

One more inmate and cell phone story. This time in Tenessee.

The Tennessee Department of Corrections said they've caught a number of inmates who smuggled cell phones into prison, News Channel 5 reports.

"Close to 300 cell phones have been confiscated from Tennessee inmates in the past two years, prison spokeswoman Amanda Sluss said. Most of the phones were discovered in the state's largest penitentiary, located north of Memphis.

Inmates who smuggle phone in often use the phones to continue criminal activity behind bars, prison officials said.

Prisoners caught with a phone are disciplined; sometimes they are put in 23-hour lockdown if they have been in trouble before."

emily | 5:13 PM | Inmates and Cell Phones |
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