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Cell phones hard to find on death row

If you think smuggled cell phones in Texas prisons are easy to track down, think again, say officials involved in the seemingly endless search.

In recent months, phones been found tied inside plastic bags and buried in a jar of peanut butter. And secreted inside the tiny vent atop a shower stall. And hidden in a hollowed-out spot in the binding of a law book. Even stuffed inside a sock, pushed way up out of view inside a narrow crack in a concrete wall.

And, in at least two cases, they have been found in a plastic sack inside someone's rectum…

LINK - Statesman.com (The Austin American Statesman)