September 8, 2006
Cellphones Found Inside Cellmates
Four prisoners in an El Salvador jail hid cellphones, a phone charger and spare chips in their bowels so they could coordinate crimes from their cells, prison officials said on Wednesday. Reuters reports via Gizmodo.
Related:
-- Inmates reach new creativity level in smuggling in cell phones - Cellphones are making their way into jails and prison through all kinds of methods: Drug barons incarcerated in a Thai prison have been using toads to smuggle in mobile phones and SIM cards. Elsewhere they're stuffed inside mayonnaise jars, hidden in compost piles, shoved into the soles of shoes, slipped inside hollowed-out blocks of cheese. But the most alarming way to obtain a cellphone is to simply to pay a corrupt correctional officer to provide one.
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