<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 18:00, Barrack Otieno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com" target="_blank">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Listers,<br>
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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?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>@Barrack,<br><br>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.<br>
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.<br>
I am surprised you've never had an "interaction" with such facilities to know this fact - ask everyone who has been arrested:-)<br><br>It's not a roadside declaration. It's perfectly within the legal confines.<br>
</div></div><br><br>-- <br>Best regards,<br>
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