Mobile phone deals from prison

Saturday 17th October 2009, 3:00PM BST.

Prisoners are using hidden SIM cards and then sharing a few handsets

Prisoners are said to be using hidden SIM cards and sharing a few handsets

PRISONERS are believed to have been masterminding drug deals from La Moye using mobile phones hidden in their cells.

And now the States – along with the prison governor and Customs and Immigration – want to see the mobile phone network for the area taken down.

Prisoners are understood to be using hidden SIM cards and then sharing a few mobile phone handsets between them to make contact with the outside world. It is believed that people also text their friends in prison with the top-up codes to increase their credit.

Home Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand said: ‘I am concerned about the ability to smuggle in mobile phones and SIM cards into the prison. It is an issue we are currently looking at to try to sort out.’

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