Bottom line: phonecams as prison contraband. OK, so Rene Rivkin is a sort of colorful and infamous Australian stockbroker who was recently sentenced to weekend detention for insider trading. According to this news story in the Sydney Morning Herald, another man serving periodic jail time has been charged with smuggling a cameraphone into the prison where Rivkin is being detained, for the purpose of taking camphone paparazzi snapshots that soon showed up in an Australian tabloid. You still with me here? Good.
The 26-year-old man is understood to be serving several months of weekend detention at the prison following his conviction for a minor drug offence. He was charged with introducing contraband to a correctional facility and faces up to two years' jail when he faces Central Local Court on July 23. Photographs of Rivkin on his first day of detention appeared in a Sunday newspaper, sparking a security shutdown in the jail. It was during a search of his cell that Rivkin collapsed and was admitted to hospital. Police would not reveal whether the phone camera had been recovered or how it was smuggled into the jail.
Link to story.
Update: QTVR enthusiast and photographer Peter Murphy says, "I did this panorama of Rivkin leaving court on the day before he started his periodic detention sentence, and blogged about it here."
I invite you to debate which orifice that smuggled cellblock phonecam may have been crammed into here: Discuss
