As regulations keep advancing,
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make
June 2018
moves toward blocking cell phone signals,
corrections institutions must keep in mind the
possible use of a cell phone as a data storage
device as opposed to a data transmission de-
In addition to the small prisoners’ phones, vice.
cell phones in general continue to be an is-
sue in and of themselves.
On March 23, 2017, in a 3-0 vote, the
mates
in very
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into candy bars or internalized in body cav-
ities where few detection technologies can
detect them.
FCC has provided greater support for
According to the National Offender Management
jails and prisons to use technology to
Service (NOMS), 7,451 mobile phones were con-
block cellular signals, thereby making
fiscated across UK prisons.
it more difficult for inmates to use their
That number increased to 9,745 in 2014. cell phones.
If you think that number is high, California
The order also called for wireless carriers to work
alone confiscated nearly 8,000 phones in with corrections facilities more closely to enable
2015.
the use of technology based interdiction systems,
such as managed access systems (MAS).
3) PHONES AS DATA STORAGE VS. DATA
TRANSMISSION
With the movements to stop calls, texts,
California alone confiscated nearly 8,000 phones in 2015.
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