{"id":2104,"date":"2011-09-18T07:39:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T06:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2021-09-10T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T14:30:53","slug":"convicts-to-get-phones-in-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=2104","title":{"rendered":"Convicts to get phones in cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2105\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Phone-smuggled-in-shoe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Phone-smuggled-in-shoe-150x145.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Phone smuggled in shoe<\/div>\r\n<\/div>Prisoners could soon have telephones installed in their cells, allowing them to make calls from their beds.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are searching for a suitable jail to pilot the scheme and HMP Isis, a young offenders\u2019 institution in South East London, is believed to be the most likely choice. The prison can hold 252 inmates in single and double cells, and each cell would have a landline phone installed.<\/p>\n<p>The move is intended to stamp out the illegal use of mobiles in prisons and the flourishing black market in smuggled phones. It will also end the scenes, made familiar by television dramas, of inmates queuing to use public phones on prison landings.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2038652\/Convicts-phones-cells-Prison-chiefs-hope-thwart-black-market-mobiles-critics-hit-justice-gone-soft.html#ixzz1YHbqiv4i\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phone smuggled in shoe Prisoners could soon have telephones installed in their cells, allowing them to make calls from their beds. Officials are searching for a suitable jail to pilot the scheme and HMP Isis, a young offenders\u2019 institution in South East London, is believed to be the most likely choice. The prison can hold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}