Corrections Secure Transfer News & Articles

• Delivering prisoner compliance with the Stun-Cuff

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  Data tracking system now offered with less lethal device

• Fla. jail replaces in-person visitations with video

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  Prisoners now meet visitors via monitors located in separate buildings

• Cell phone smuggling techniques: A photo database

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  Welcome to the Corrections1.com contraband cell phone photo database - a collection of images detailing techniques used to smuggle cell phones inside. Click on any photo to see it in a larger, more...

• Migratory patterns: Tracking how contraband travels in a facility

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  How we can gain a considerable upper hand by considering how contraband moves

• San Francisco non-violent inmate strip search policy upheld

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  Court decision overrules a 1984 standard that limited which new inmates could be searched

• Wash. jail intercepts a melon full of drugs

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  Cantaloupe had tobacco and a baggie full of oxycodone pills stuffed inside

• NYC chaplain tried to smuggle razors into jail, officials say

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  Attorney says there's no reason to believe his client knew razors were in his bag

• Ex-Ga. officer pleads guilty to smuggling phones into jail

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  Pearlene Williams, former Atlanta PD chief of staff, smuggled cellphones to her son in DeKalb County Jail

• Pair used jury box to try and smuggle drugs into jail

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  Associated PressPUEBLO, Colo. — It was a dumb way to try to sneak drugs into prison. Pueblo County authorities said a 22-year-old woman worked out a plan with her boyfriend to get narcotics into ja...

• Former Calif. officer pleads guilty to heroin smuggling

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  By Chris DurantEureka Times StandardSACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Humboldt County correctional facility officer who was caught trying to smuggle heroin into the jail in July entered a guilty plea to a cha...

• Police: Woman smuggled drugs to Pa. inmate with kiss

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  Associated PressMERCER, Pa. — A western Pennsylvania woman has been ordered to stand trial on charges she passed a drug-filled balloon to a state prison inmate while kissing him. State police said ...

• Loaded gun smuggled into Texas juvenile lockup

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  Associated PressHOUSTON — Texas authorities are trying to figure out how a 16-year-old may have gotten a loaded handgun past officers at a juvenile detention center in Houston.Officers at the Harri...

• N.J.'s cell phone sniffing dogs

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  By Beth DeFalco Associated Press BORDENTOWN, N.J. — As Congress considers whether to allow state prisons to install cell phone jamming devices, New Jersey is grappling with ways to stop inmates fro...

• 20 governors back prison cell phone jamming bill

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  Associated PressANNAPOLIS, Md. — Twenty governors have signed a letter to support legislation in Congress to allow states to jam contraband cell phones in prisons.The bipartisan legislation would e...

• Loaded weapon mailed to Fla. jail

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  Orlando SentinelArrests are expected after Brevard County deputy sheriffs intercepted a loaded handgun mailed to an inmate at the county jail. Since Friday, when the discovery occurred, investigato...

• Ex-Clinton aide smuggled needles to death row inmate

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  By Jon Gambrell Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Betsey Ross Wright, a former chief of staff for then-Gov. Bill Clinton, zealously defended Arkansas death-row inmates and often irritated state ...

• Mo. guard admits smuggling heroin to inmate

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  By Robert PatrickSt. Louis Post-DispatchST. LOUIS — A guard at the St. Louis Justice Center pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal drug charge and admitted accepting $200 to smuggle heroin to an inm...

• Texas inmate hides gun in fat layers

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  By Elizabeth Scarborough Click2Houston.com A nearly 600-pound man was able to hide a weapon between layers of fat for more than a day while he was in custody, police said Wednesday. "Obviously the ...

• Cell-phone problem in prisons leads to calls for jamming law

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  By Samantha FriedmanArkansas Democrat-GazetteLITTLE ROCK, Ark. — State prison inmates Charles Wilson and convicted murderers Calvin Adams and Jeffrey Grinder plotted their recent escapes from the C...

• Officials ask for help controlling prison cell phones

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  By Brian Witte Associated PressWASHINGTON — State officials appealed to members of Congress on Wednesday to give states a new tool to control illegal cell phone use by prison inmates and quickly ra...

• A complicated and dangerous place: Stats from the Cook County jail

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  Jail's weekly stats: 42 fights, 11 shanks; Sheriff tries to keep order in dangerous place By Mark BrownThe Chicago Sun-TimesCOOK COUNTY, Ill. — It's 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Cook County Jail, and o...

• The future of the cell phone contraband battle

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  Editor's note: This article is part of a Corrections1 Special Report on the 2009 Mock Prison Riot in Moundsville, W.V. You can check out the whole report (including exclusive articles and video con...

• 'Cookie' shank discovered in Wash.

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  Weapon concealed within an inmates personal property Sea-Tac, Wash.: Late last year, while conducting a search of personal property belonging to an inmate being placed in the Special Housing Unit, ...

• 'Cookie' shank discovered in Wash.

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  Weapon concealed within an inmates personal propertySea-Tac, Wash.: Late last year, while conducting a search of personal property belonging to an inmate being placed in the Special Housing Unit, s...

• Texas prisons locked down after death-row inmate found with phone

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  By Michael Graczyk Associated PressCorrections1 Alert: Small device, high security riskC1 Forums: High-tech contraband at your facility? Phone scam run out of Philly prison HOUSTON — Gov. Rick Perr...

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