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| California prison officials try high-tech approach to contraband cell phones |
| By scpr.org - Rina Palta |
| Published: 10/23/2012 |
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People stuff them in footballs and toss them over barbed wire fences into prison yards. They're smuggled in by prison visitors or correctional officers who sell them for hundreds of dollars behind bars. However the cell phones get in, Jeffrey Callison with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said contraband cell phones in California prisons are a growing problem. "The number of contraband cell phones confiscated has risen each year, almost exponentially to 15,000 just last year in California," Callison said. And that's created some high-profile problems. Inmates have been found to be keeping Facebook pages, an inmate in South Carolina called a hit on a correctional officer from prison, and Charles Manson, kept inside one of the most secure cells in California, has been caught with cell phones twice. Which is why the state rolled out a high-tech approach Monday that they hope will at least minimize the use of illegal phones, starting with Avenal State Prison in the Central Valley. The approach, called "managed access" creates an umbrella over the prison, blocking cellular transmission from all but pre-authorized phones. Global Tel Link, the same company that operates the state prisons' payphones is paying for the technology in the hopes that they will recapture inmate customers who've increasingly turned to contraband cell phones to keep in touch with the outside world. Read More. |
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