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| Prisons will try to jam cell phones |
| By Augusta Chronicle |
| Published: 09/05/2008 |
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SOUTH CAROLINA - Hoping to crack down on illegal activity in prisons, South Carolina Department of Corrections officials might be committing some of their own. Federal law prohibits state or local law enforcement from using cell-phone jamming devices. On Tuesday, officials will be shown the devices provided by CellAntenna Corp., a Florida-based company, at the Lieber Correctional Institution in Ridgeville. Prison officials want to jam cell phones that are smuggled into prisons and used to conduct drug deals, intimidate witnesses, extort money and run gangs. "The federal government knows that blocking technology can eliminate this threat without disrupting other calls," Corrections Director Jon Ozmint said in a statement. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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