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Kansas seeking to jam cell phone signals
By The Kansas City Star
Published: 12/22/2008

KANSAS - The dog crate got all the publicity. But it was a cell phone smuggled by an accomplice that helped convicted killer John Manard plan his escape from a Kansas prison in 2006.

And the next year, when two inmates broke out of another Kansas prison with the help of a former guard, a smuggled cell phone proved instrumental in plotting the breakout. Those cases illustrate a growing problem faced by correctional facilities across the country. Some officials now want federal rules changed to allow them to jam cell phone signals within their institutions. Read more.

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