"“How can you tell what type of cellphone an inmate uses,” he asked, “based on what’s in his cell?” He let me think for about two seconds before cheerily giving

"“How can you tell what type of cellphone an inmate uses,” he asked, “based on what’s in his cell?” He let me think for about two seconds before cheerily giving me the answer: you examine the bar of soap on the prisoner’s sink. The safest place for an inmate to store anything is in his rectum, and to keep the orifice supple and sized for the (contraband) phone, inmates have been known to whittle their bars of soap and tuck them away as a placeholder while their phones are in use. So a short and stubby bar means a durable old dumbphone; broad and flat means a BlackBerry or an iPhone. Pity the poor guy whose bar of soap is the size and shape of a Samsung Galaxy Note." This stinks of the standard urban legend trope structure, and with that in mind, I don't think it's true. There's absolutely not reason to keep an ass pocket supple and sized for contraband. And it's absolutely not true that you need a place holder for the contraband, when the contraband in not being hidden there. Lastly, regularly putting a bar of soap in one's anus would be incredibly uncomfortable, and inmates would quickly stop that process, replacing it - if it was really needed in the first place - with something plastic and chemically inert. http://drbenkim.com/dont-use-soap-private-parts.htm http://drbenkim.com/dont-use-soap-private-parts.htm How do I know? I live in the Bay Area. Healthy sexuality is discussed over wine by people of all sexual persuasions.