Inmates at Wisconsin’s scandal-ravaged teen prison made more than 600 phone calls on a cellphone they stole from a manager over two weeks before prison staff got on top of the situation, state records show.
Prisoners at Lincoln Hills School for Boys snatched the phone and its charger from the office of Rick Peterson on Oct. 19 but Peterson didn’t report it missing until Nov. 1, when a colleague told him guards had recovered a charger during a prison search.
Peterson told his bosses he rarely used the phone and hadn’t realized for two weeks it was missing. They recovered the phone the next day.
By then, the inmates had talked on the phone for more than 71 hours in 663 phone calls.
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