County approves phones for jail cells
Some inmates at Young County Jail will soon have access to wall-mounted phones in their cells after county commissioners voted at their Aug. 1 meeting to allow the jail commissary supplier to install and operate the devices at nocost to the county. The commissioners approved a 60-month contract for Sterling Commissar y/ Crown Correctional Telephoneof Clifton, Texas. Sheriff Travis Babcock asked for approval for the phones, which require inmates to hold their ears up to the wall-mounted receivers, because of problems with inmates using wireless phones as weapons against other inmates anddeputies. The new phones will be installed by Sterling- Crown in the 12 separation cells, where inmates are housed individually, Sheriff Babcock said. Those inmates now share a single cordless telephone that is rolled to their cells on a cart.
