prison cell phone – Gadget Teaser https://www.gadgetteaser.com Tracking the gadget and tech revolution Sat, 16 May 2009 15:16:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 Inmate Adds 60 Years to His Sentence for Having a Cell Phone https://www.gadgetteaser.com/2009/05/16/inmate-adds-60-years-to-his-sentence-for-having-a-cell-phone/ Sat, 16 May 2009 15:16:22 +0000 https://www.gadgetteaser.com/?p=901 The Texas penal system has added an extra 60 years onto the prison sentence of inmate Derrick Ross, a three-time burglary felon, for possession of a cell phone behind prison walls. There are plenty of obvious reasons you aren’t allowed a cell phone behind bars, but 60 years? People convicted of manslaughter aren’t held that […]

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]]> Keep your cell phone out of prison.The Texas penal system has added an extra 60 years onto the prison sentence of inmate Derrick Ross, a three-time burglary felon, for possession of a cell phone behind prison walls. There are plenty of obvious reasons you aren’t allowed a cell phone behind bars, but 60 years? People convicted of manslaughter aren’t held that long.

Prosecutor Allyson Mitchell claims the additional 60-year penalty will send a message to other inmates. Shouldn’t we instead be wondering how this guy got hold of a cell phone? And how then was he able to keep it? For some reason, it seems the Texas penal system needs to be taught a lesson or two, one that spends taxpayer dollars on something that might improve their justice system for the next 60 years, not just add another felon to the books.

Source: Palestine Herald

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