By Stephen Dean
The Indy Channel
INDIANAPOLIS — A Call 6 Investigators report on inmates threatening families from their prison cells has prompted an Indiana senator to push for action in Congress.
On October 31, the Call 6 Investigatorsuncovered a growing trend of inmates using smuggled phones to target victims of crime and other families for harassment and threats.
“I feel like … (we’re) in danger from the time you go to sleep at night ‘til waking up in the morning. It’s not right,” said an Indianapolis woman who reported that her family had been threatened by a convict using a smuggled cellphone.
The family told Indiana Department of Correction workers that the convict threatened to kill them and burn their home down because he was angry that they were trying to limit his contact with their 18-year-old daughter.
Shortly after the inmate was caught with a smuggled phone inside a Plainfield lockup, the family said the calls grew more intense with the convicted robber using yet another smuggled phone.
The Chairman of the Indiana Senate Judiciary committee, Sen. Brent Steele, R-Bedford, notified the Call 6 Investigators on Friday that he had sent copies of the station’s report to the state’s congressional delegation at the United States Capitol.
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