Volume 23
May 2018 Edition
For years prisons officials throughout the
United States have tried to persuade the
Federal Communications Commission
“He can order hits,” the governor said. “He can make (FCC) to let them jam cellphone signals,
arrangements for robberies.”
unsuccessfully.
McMaster explained that an inmate who gets access to a
contraband cellphone can “run his business on the out-
side just as well as he could if he was sitting right here.”
Critics of the technology say the approach prevents
nearby cellphone users from making emergency
calls, and current federal law prohibits the sale, im-
portation or use of jamming equipment.
(Here from former corrections Captain Robert Johnson, who
was attacked followings an inmate put a hit on him using a cell
phone behind bars.)
Similar challenges have been raised regarding
the current laws with regard to anti-drone and
counter-drone jamming technologies to com-
bat nefarious drones contributing to delivery
methods for contraband in prison and correc-
tional facility yards, and even being used to
successfully facility prison escapes.
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