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| Ban on mobile phone jammers may be lifted for prisons |
| By smh.com.au |
| Published: 02/01/2010 |
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MOBILE phone jammers will be allowed to operate in prisons if the communications regulator approves an exemption to a decade-old ban on the call-blocking devices. The Australian Communications and Media Authority is reviewing the ban and considering a government request to use the device at the Lithgow Correctional Centre, a maximum-security facility. Lithgow is considered a good candidate because it is seven kilometres from a population centre and has a record of using leading-edge technology. State and territory governments are keen to have them in detention facilities to block the illicit use of phones. In arguing for the trial, the Corrective Services Administrators Council said phones could disrupt jails by helping inmates carry out crime, contact people outside, access pornography and undertake financial transactions. The council's submission to the regulator said prisoners had used mobile phones to harass or threaten victims of crime and other individuals, including witnesses. Read More. |
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