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| Prison hosts phone-jamming demo |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 11/24/2008 |
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SOUTH CAROLINA - Despite a federal law against it, representatives from corrections departments in several states gathered Friday at Lieber Correctional Institution to observe a demonstration of equipment that blocks cell-phone signals, in the hopes they'll be allowed to use it someday themselves. Regulators can grant federal agencies permission to use the technology, which renders cell-phone signals useless with the flip of a switch by preventing cell tower signals from reaching the phone. > South Carolina Corrections Director Jon Ozmint invited a company that makes and sells the equipment to conduct the demonstration in the hopes that state and local authorities will be granted permission to use it in their facilities.< br /> "In this prison system as we speak, there is likely an inmate using a cell phone," said Ozmint, who says contraband cell phones are one of the biggest security problems in prisons. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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