Wednesday, October 19, 2011

$250,000 CELLPHONE

This cellphone cost an inmate his parole and added five years to his prison time that will cost the state $250,000. Now that’s what I call one expensive phone.

BORROWED CELLPHONE SLAMS PRISON CELL SHUT

LAPPL News Watch
October 18, 2011

Dwayne Kennedy threw a man from a moving car in 1988, but that's not what's keeping him in prison today. It's not the inmate he stabbed 17 years ago either; the state parole board forgave him that. Instead, California prison officials are keeping Kennedy locked up for an extra five years - costing taxpayers roughly $250,000 - because guards caught him with a contraband cellphone he says he borrowed to tell his family he had just been granted parole and was coming home.

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