[kictanet] Interesting developement

[Barrack Otieno]

I get your point Washington isn't prison a corrective facilty?, I
think it is better to address the matter other than undertake such a
measure which I consider inappropriate, let's consider the issue with
some sobriety other than blanket condemnation, this is definately a
precursor to tapping :-(

On 10/11/11, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 18:00, Barrack Otieno
> <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Listers,
>>
>> Listening to Hope Fm a debate on Safaricom jamming the phone signal in
>> prisons in Partnership with Kenya prisons, is this move legal if it is
>> true
>> or is it a roadside declaration? The intended benefit notwithstanding?
>>
>>
> @Barrack,
>
> The answer to this is quite simple: Prisoners/convicts are not allowed by
> law to have mobile phones in the cells. Even at the Police Station level,
> suspects detained in cells are not allowed such luxury as keeping any
> personal property with them in the cells, bar for the clothing they have on
> their bodies.
> It's therefore obvious that a prisoner having a mobile phone in the
> detention/remand facility is doing so illegally, perhaps by some collusion
> from the warders. I believe the Prisons Dept is admitting that the problem
> is not easy for them to address and as such they have resorted to jamming
> the phone signal. Nothing wrong with that, since the law does not allow the
> use of those phones.
> I am surprised you've never had an "interaction" with such facilities to
> know this fact - ask everyone who has been arrested:-)
>
> It's not a roadside declaration. It's perfectly within the legal confines.
>
>
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