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Editorials on Prison Cell Phone Blocking

By Steve Hall

Today's Longivew News-Journal carries the editorial, "Cell phone, cell mates: Bill would allow prisons to jam illegal use."State officials are pushing Congress for the right to use jamming equipment in prisons to stop prisoners from using smuggled cell phones. While we appreciate the concerns of the cell phone industry that such jamming equipment could adversely affect legitimate customers, certainly there's a solution here. In a number of well-publicized incidents, prisoners have been caught directing criminal activity outside the prison by using cell phones. Ideally, prison officials could stop phones from being smuggled inside. The reality is that no system is perfect. Family members and crooked guards are the most common ways phones end up in inmates' hands...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 17, 2009 (boomark / email).