Ethics

Can You Hear Me Now?

By Ed Brayton

From the Houston Chronicle:

Prison staff conducting a shakedown of the row Friday found a cell phone secreted in the rectum of convicted murderer Henry Skinner at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons.

They first found two SIM cards, or memory chips, in Skinner's Bible, she said. Because they suspected he also had a cell phone, they took him to the infirmary, did an X-ray and found the cell phone.

That gives a whole new meaning to "cell block." More bars in more places. I bet he gets shitty reception. I wonder if he had the Friends and Cellmates plan? Okay, I'll stop.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 18, 2008 (boomark / email).