From: _ G O D _ <heavenlyone@HEAV3N.H3LL.C0M>
Organization: Internet News Service
Newsgroups: alt.activism.death-penalty,alt.prisons,alt.law-enforcement
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:17:15 -0400
Subject: INMATES NEED TO BE CASTRATED SO AS NOT TO BREED MORE CRIMINALS ==>
Total ban on mobile phones in state jails

Total ban on mobile phones in state jails

by Rosemary Odgers

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16909332%255E3
102,00.html

Employees, contractors, police officers and even dignitaries
will be banned from taking mobile phones into Queensland
prisons under a security crackdown. Corrective Services
Minister Judy Spence has issued the ban following concerns
prisoners may be able to take advantage of new technology
which allows people to e-mail and access the Internet from
mobile phones.
Prisoners are already banned from having mobiles but bans
will now be extended to anyone entering a prison including
staff, management, contractors, visiting police officers and
dignitaries such as the Premier to reduce the risk of them
falling into the wrong hands.
These people had previously been able to seek permission
to take a phone into a jail, but this will now be denied.

"This poses a real security risk in our prisons which I am not
prepared to accept," Ms Spence said. "If offenders get access
to mobile phones while in jail, they could continue criminal
activities, threaten people in the community or access telephone
banking facilities."
Anyone caught trying to take a mobile phone into a Queensland
prison faces a maximum penalty of two years' jail.
Earlier this year, authorities foiled an escape attempt from
Lotus Glen Correctional Centre near Cairns when a convicted
murderer used a mobile phone to plot an escape using a
helicopter and firearms.
A mobile phone which had been smuggled into the jail was found in the
prisoner's
possession and SMS messages detailed the escape plans.
Ms Spence said mobile phones were a growing problem in jails worldwide
because they
were getting smaller and therefore easier to hide.
However, she said prisons now had a range of detection measures.
Ms Spence said there had been no escapes from secure custody since 1998, but
it was
important to regularly review security including X-rays, metal detectors and
electronic scanners.
The telephone system used by prisoners is also monitored to detect anything
that
suggests other forms of communications might be being used.
Between April 2004 and June 2005, four mobile phones were found inside
Queensland
jails, and authorities intercepted another 17 before they could be smuggled
in.
Prison authorities across Australia have reported finding mobile phones
secreted in
body parts, hidden in tins of baked beans, cakes and blocks of cheese.
Several years ago, ministers considered blocking mobile phone reception in
jails
after NSW authorities found 35 mobiles had been used to make more than 56,000
calls.
However, there were concerns that jail phone-jamming technology could
interrupt
residential services in nearby areas or prevent emergency calls getting
through.
Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg said yesterday he supported a crackdown
on
mobile phones, but if the Government was going to completely stop their use
in jails,
it should detail how many incidents there had been where phones had been
stolen from
legitimate users.

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