Speaking with the Observer last Friday, Dr Chang said while he did not know the specifics of the Red Hills Road situation, changes were being made across the prison system which will effectively cramp the efforts of inmates to communicate with their cronies on the outside.

Successive governments have, over the years, ploughed resources into installing cellular phone signal jammers at the Horizon and Tower Street prison facilities, only for them to fall into disrepair.

Last year an ex-inmate who spent 21 years in prison for murder told the Observer of meeting an 11-year-old girl in a chat room while in prison, and secretly mentoring the child from his cellular phone.

“The Government spend millions of dollars on jammers to jam the cellphones in the prison.

Employ about 10 or 15 other persons in the prison, and let the inmates have a phone with a number work through the system where they can monitor the calls,” he proposed.