By Kerry Kavanaugh
WSBTV
ATLANTA — A Channel 2 investigation found Georgia inmates somehow getting cellphones behind bars and using them to commit more crimes.
Channel 2 Kerry Kavanaugh found there is technology to stop it, but Georgia won’t put it in place just yet.
Jeannette Mims still has nightmares about the March robbery at her family business in Columbia, S.C. Police said it was orchestrated by an inmate in a Georgia prison.
“I just knew at that moment that he was going to kill us. I was just wondering where he was going to shoot me first,” Mims told Kavanaugh. “He had the gun, swinging it, swinging it over his head, ‘Get the you-know-what on the floor.’ And I thought, ‘I will never see my family again.’”
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