Jail bug
NZPA-Reuter Carson City Prison authorities have found a listening device and evidence of wiretapping that let inmates of a maximum security prison overhear the prison chief and learn when guards planned to search for weapons. The Nevada maximum security prison’s new superintendent. George Sumner, said guards became suspicious because "some of the things they talked about m the office, the inmates knew about before they could put their plans into effect." Inmates working in the administration area had access to a supply room and telephone terminals, ’.which were found to.be “all marked up" where listening devices had been attached. A search of the dormitory directly above ■ the main offices' turned up a crude, 90cm tube with an amplifier that could be lowered through floor vents or outside windows to pick up conversations, - .Mr Sumner said. - '
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Press, 7 December 1981, Page 9
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