"The Latest Contraband. Forget the knife in a cake. The hottest illegal device behind bars these days is the cell phone."

By Roya Wolverson Newsweek Updated: 11:45 a.m. PT Sept 24, 2007

"Sept. 24, 2007 - A prison warden in Texas recently got a call from an inmate’s mother complaining about bad cell-phone reception in her son’s maximum-security prison. The mother, it seems, had sent her son a mobile phone, at his request, through a post office box owned by a prison guard. Little did she know that cell phones are illegal contraband in the Texas prison system and that the guard had smuggled the device into the facility for a $400 fee, says John Moriarty, inspector general for the Texas Criminal Justice Department."

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