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Industrious inmates are inundating the county’s emergency phone center with non-emergency calls in an attempt to reach outside contacts, and Sheriff James Haywood wants it to stop.
“It’s causing our system to get overloaded. They’re calling back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to back,” he said.
During the last convening of the Sunflower County Board of Supervisors, Haywood informed the members that Parchman’s inmates are placing hundreds of non-emergency calls to the E-911 operators, and it is overwhelming them to the point that they are unable to adequately answer actual emergency calls.
Haywood said, “Inmates are trying to call out on cell phones and they think that they can call out and use a code and dial out…
