Prisoner's ringing rectum reveals smuggled cellphone
<http://www.allvoices.com/Sri-Lanka/Colombo/Colombo> Colombo : <http://www.allvoices.com/Sri-Lanka> Sri Lanka | Feb 09, 2013 at 11:49 PM PST By Herbert Dyer, Jr. <http://www.allvoices.com/users/herbinchi> A prisoner at Welikada jail in Colombo, Sri Lanka, this week was caught attempting to hide a smuggled cell phone in his rectum, according to an Agence France-Presse report. The 58-year-old convict had jammed not only the phone <http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/08/sri-lanka-phone-smuggling-prisoner-be trayed-by-ringing-butt/> but a hands-free headset as well into the same area. Apparently, the only reason the inmate was caught was because the phone actually began to ring during his processing into the jail. "Guards knew he had a phone at the wrong end," an unidentified guard told the AFP. An X-ray in a local hospital revealed the phone and handset. This particular jail seems beset with illegal cell phone problems, drugs and other contraband. In November of last year, at least 27 people were killed when prisoners rioted during a search for illegal phones <http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/10/us-srilanka-prison-idUSBRE8A905F2 0121110> and drugs, reports Reuters. Likewise, Brazilian prisoners are attached to their phones. In January, a prisoner apparently tried to smuggle in a cell phone, earphone, memory card, charger, drill and saw on the back of a cat. <http://news.yahoo.com/cat-caught-sneaking-saw-phone-brazil-prison-145407675 .html> According to Reuters, the duct-taped feline was "detained" for questioning by authorities, but did not rat out his compatriots. Indeed, a prison spokesperson acknowledged as much. "It's tough to find out who's responsible for the action as the cat doesn't speak," the prison official said in a report in The Independent <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/its-tough-to-find-out-whos -responsible-for-the-action-as-the-cat-doesnt-speak-feline-caught-sneaking-s aw-and-phone-into-brazilian-prison-8439518.html> . In the US, of course, it is a crime for any inmate to possess a cell phone in any state or federal prison <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/cellphone-use-by-feder al-prisoners-on-the-rise/2011/09/07/gIQAb7wLAK_blog.html> . Still, illegal phones make their way past all of the rather elaborate (and expensive) security systems, and seizures have increased exponentially, according to the Washington Post. No matter. Inmates still try to get connected. According to Sgt. Don McGraw of California's infamous San Quentin State Prison, inmates there have a now well known method of smuggling in phones and drugs. <http://gizmodo.com/5853495/yes-prisoners-carry-iphones-in-their-asses> They use visitation room bathrooms as a way to pass phones from <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/08/prisoner-phone-butt-sri-lanka_n_26 46714.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news> mainly female visitors to inmates. An inmate's associate on the outside will have taped a package (of phones, drugs, tobacco, etc.) to the back of the women's toilet, for example. When the inmates come to clean, they toss it in with the rest of the trash, then sort through it later. Then, when nobody's looking, whoop, up the butt it goes. Fans of the TV show Lockup know that an ever-growing number of prisons have specially trained dogs which can sniff out not only drugs and weapons, but cell phones as well. Recently, officers of the K-9 Unit at the Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility in central New Jersey put their cell-phone sniffing dogs through their paces for the public. The dogs found cell phones stashed away in lockers, books, appliances, and near bunks in an unused dorm building, and sniffed out a dog-tooth-marked cell phone in the weeds of a field. How do the dogs do it? Capt. Matthew Kyle, an officer in New Jersey, gave The New Yorker <http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/10/19/091019ta_talk_frazier> a clue of sorts in 2009. We dont want to publicate what the cell-phone smell is exactly. Its an organic substance thats in all cell phonesleave it at that. The dogs can smell it even when its masked. They can find it if the cell phones in water, oil, peanut butteranywhere. Cell phones in prison present a particularly serious security issue to both those inside and us -- outside the walls. Cell phones defeat one of the main points of incarceration the isolation of an offender from the general society. They are one of the biggest problems prison officials face. Criminals with cell phones can participate in, even direct, gang activity. They can participate in and conduct all manner of criminal enterprises, including everything from drugs to murder, all while supposedly locked up. They can more easily contract hits on other inmates and staff, and co-ordinate an entire riot or rebellion while sitting in a supposedly secure or isolated cell. But, the cell-phone-in-the-butt routine, though intriguing, is just one of many ingenious ways of getting phones into a joint. Oh, geeall kinds of ways, Thomas Moran <http://www.allvoices.com/people/Thomas_Moran> , the New Jersey D.O.C. chief of staff at Albert C. Wagner facility said. Their friends shoot em over the fence with potato guns, fly em in on model airplanes <http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/10/19/091019ta_talk_frazier> , arrows . . . Body cavities, of course, when a girlfriend visits. Packages. Food deliveries. F.C.C. regulations say we cant interfere with cell-phone transmissions by jamming. Going after the illegal phones with dogs is by far the most efficient means. I disagree, Im afraid, with the chief. Try to figure out the number and just call the phone and, for the inmates sake and everyone involved, hope it rings rather than vibrates. Thé Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy" Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi "Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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