More than 1,600 mobile phones seized from prisoners
Tuesday, 2 October 2007
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More than 1,600 mobile phones have reportedly been seized from prisoners across Ireland over the past year.
Reports this morning say more than 550 have been taken from inmates at Mountjoy Prison alone.
Prison officers mounted a crackdown on the use of mobile phones in jails after the controversy sparked when one inmate rang the Joe Duffy show from his cell in Portlaoise earlier this year.
The Government subsequently introduced legislation making it illegal for prisoners to have unauthorised possession of mobiles.
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