WATCH: Should prisoners have access to cellphones?
Phones have been used to expose abuses and there is already a thriving illicit market for them in prisons.
Photo for illustration: File image
The South African Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights has called on the government to legalise cellphones inside prisons because it believes that most of the country’s estimated 140,000 inmates already have some form of access to these banned devices.
The organisation’s Miles Bhudu says they believe prison wardens smuggle cellphones into prisons to sell to inmates.
By Adel Van Niekerk
This article first appeared on GroundUp. Read the original article here.
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