After years of resistance, Texas prisons answer call for inmate phones

After years of resistance, Texas prisons answer call for inmate phones
Security, monitoring will be the biggest challenge, officials say.
By Mike Ward
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Sunday, July 01, 2007

Excerpt:
"New phone technology allows officials to use biometrics — fingerprint and eyeball identification — to verify inmates who can make calls and other technology that allows investigators to target calls by cons more likely to engage in illegal activity."

After years of resistance, Texas prisons answer call for inmate phones