Mississippi Today: Mississippi prisons officials continue to wage an uphill battle to rid the corrections system of thousands of illegal cell phones in the hands of inmates.
In the past five years, more than 9 million texts and attempted transmissions have been intercepted from inmate cell phones at two state prisons, officials say.
“There's got to be staff involvement,” says Marshall L. Fisher, commissioner of the state Department of Corrections, who also blames vendors and even people who throw the cell phones over security fences.
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