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Nevada Criminalizes Cell Phones in State Prisons

Loaded on June 15, 2008 published in Prison Legal News June, 2008, page 40
Filed under: Telephone Access, News, State Legislation. Location: New Jersey.
On May 10, 2007, Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons signed into law AB-106, a bill making it a felony for prisoners to possess a cell phone in prison or for a person to furnish a prisoner with a cell phone. Anyone charged with one of those offenses faces up to four ...

 

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