X-Ray Reveals Cell Phone Inside Death Row Inmate
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X-Ray Reveals Cell Phone Inside Death Row Inmate
Texas prison officials have recovered yet another contraband cell phone from a death row inmate, or more accurately from inside a death row inmate.
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(November 14, 2008)--Texas prison officials have recovered yet another contraband cell phone from a death row inmate, or more accurately from inside a death row inmate.

In the second seizure this week since a systemwide lockdown and search for contraband ended, Texas Department of Criminal Justice officers found a phone inside the body of condemned inmate Hank Skinner.

Two cell phone SIM cards were found hidden in Skinner's Bible, which led fficers to believe he also had a phone.

When he denied that he did, he was taken to an X-ray machine at the Polunsky Unit outside Livingston and the X-ray revealed the phone was found in his rectum.

Skinner has been on death row since 1995 for a triple slaying in Pampa in the Texas Panhandle.

Latest Comments

Posted by: thisguy on Nov 18, 2008 at 12:42 PM

how'd he get it up there? most ppl in jail try not to drop the soap...seems like he wanted to drop it all the time...
Posted by: uh-huh Location: waco on Nov 18, 2008 at 12:31 PM

Bob, it gives a new meaning to "reach out and touch someone"
Posted by: JB Location: Waco on Nov 18, 2008 at 12:30 PM

wonder how he planned on answering his calls? or how did he get inside him? never mind, I don't think I wanna know ;)
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