Smuggled cellphone use a growing concern for US prisons


  • TECH
  • Friday, 18 Apr 2014

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina: Cellphones smuggled into prisons by corrupt guards, concealed in food containers or hurled over security fences are an increasing worry for law enforcement as prisoners use them to intimidate witnesses, direct drug deals and plan escapes. 

The concerns about these contraband devices came into the national spotlight this month when US officials accused a member of the notorious Bloods gang serving a life sentence in North Carolina of using a mobile phone hidden in his prison cell to arrange the kidnapping of the father of a woman who prosecuted him. 

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