March 23, 2011
Latest on cell phones in prison legislation and “walk-time”
California prisons confiscated more than 10,000 cell phones last year. This year, officials at Corcoran State Prison found a cell phone with a camera in possession of convicted serial killer Charles Manson. It was the second phone found on Manson in two years.
In 1996, four men gang-raped a 15-year-old girl. They were convicted. But in 2008, the ringleader called the victim from his prison cell. "To our horror," Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley said at a press conference Tuesday, "there was nothing we could do about that."
In dysfunctional California, it is not illegal to smuggle a cell phone into a state prison...
LINK - SFGate.com
