Cell phones are a challenge for Oklahoma prison officials

 
BY VALLERY BROWN
Published: December 13, 2010

Corrections officers in the state’s 15 prisons have confiscated more than 1,000 cell phones this year smuggled behind bars by staff, contractors, visitors and other inmates.

They are brought inside in the body cavities of inmates, visitors and staff; hoisted over prison fences; and even hidden in the diapers of prisoner’s visiting children, said Oklahoma Corrections Department Director Justin Jones.

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