Prison Security...Needs to be more secured

A huge lockdown ordered by Gov. Rick Perry was to shake down all prisoned inmates in search for contraband cellphones, narcotics, or any other unacceptable objects that they are not allowed to obtain. Seems like these days prisons have been slacking on their security and surveillance due to not enough officers, underpaid staff, and lack of equipment. DallasMorningNews stated that we ought to have better security to prevent these inmates from possesing these contraband items. The other week StateSenatorJohnWhitmir was infuriated by the fact that a deathrowinmatecalledhisphone and threatned his daughters. How on earth did these phone calls from a celled convict reach Mr. Whitmir? Turned out that one of the prison guards had accepted a bribe from the inmate in return for a cell phone. This particulary cell phone was passed around to other inmates and made over 2,800 calls in the past month. Mr. Whitmir asked the FederalCommunicationComission on why they have not acted to make cell-signal blockers to make cell phones useless, and have only a landline phones. Only a fifth of the prison unit has metal detecters, that tells us that convicts can easily smuggle in narcotic, money, phones, or anything else. Another reason that perhaps convicts have easy access to these objects is due to guards being bribed in allowing these transactions to happen. Perhaps if prison guards are paid more than the starting salary per year of $25,400, guards wouldn't be suckered into these bribes and focus on keeping the units secured. We ought to look into the legislation to see if they could fork out more money for underpaid staff, and more equipment to keep these convicts from contrabanding things from the free world. For the jobs that the prison guards and correctional facilities have to do, they deal with everyday convicts that misbehave by not cooperating, stabbing, fighting, throwing feces, and even spitting on the unit staff. $25 grand a year is not worth working for and that is the reason why the units are way understaffed. Legislation should look into this in funding more money to get this issue resolved!