JACKSON -- Crime victims, soldiers and their families are benefiting from the Mississippi Department of Corrections' war on cellphones.
"People will use any means to get cellphones into prisons," Corrections Commissioner Christopher B. Epps said in a news release. "And MDOC will continue to distribute those confiscated devices to people who actually need them."
In 2013, corrections officials confiscated 1,746 illegal cellphones in its three prisons. Thus far, in 2014, the agency has over 511 c
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