{"id":27671,"date":"2016-08-12T08:58:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T08:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/2000-phones-seized-from-inmates\/"},"modified":"2016-08-22T07:10:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T07:10:46","slug":"2000-phones-seized-from-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/2000-phones-seized-from-inmates\/","title":{"rendered":"2000 phones seized from inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS) has revealed that they have seized 2000 phones from inmates in various prisons over the past four months.}<\/p>\n<p>George Rwigamba, the Commissioner General of RCS has said that from February up to date they have seized more than 2000 phones from 14 prisons across the country.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed this  on Tuesday as he visited Rusizi prison accommodating 2892 inmates .CGP Rwigamba requested inmates to avoid using phones because it\u2019s known the  jailed phone users want to  distort  evidence and cases filed against them ,make bad plans and betray the country. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seized more than 2000 phones over the past four months from inmates. These phones have been taken to the headquarters of RCS,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>CGP Rwigamba said that phones enter jails through prison guards or relatives bringing food to inmates.<\/p>\n<p>Prison regulations stipulate that any inmate caught red handed with a phone is supposed to be put in a solitary confinement for 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>No inmate is allowed to own a phone in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14183 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/komiseri_mukuru_wa_rcs_rwigamba_george.jpg\" alt=\"George Rwigamba, the Commissioner General of RCS briefing inmates from Rusizi prison \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS) has revealed that they have seized 2000 phones from inmates in various prisons over the past four months.} George Rwigamba, the Commissioner General of RCS has said that from February up to date they have seized more than 2000 phones from 14 prisons across the country. He revealed this on Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-27671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27671"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=27671"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=27671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}