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Beaumont prison where inmate escaped has high rate of guards sneaking in cellphones

The Beaumont prison from which an inmate escaped with the help of a cellphone earlier this month has one of Texas' worst track records for prison personnel bringing cellphones into the facility.

That's according to a Texas Watchdog analysis of prison system data procured by WOAI-Channel 4 in San Antonio.

Stiles Unit, the maximum-security facility from which David Puckett, 27, escaped and made his way to Nebraska, had the third-highest number of incidents in which Texas Department of Criminal Justice workers were accused of bringing or allowing cellphones, phone components or accessories into prison confines between 2006 and mid-2010, the data show. It had 42 such cases. More...

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