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Alabama prisons aim to render prison cellphones useless
By enewscourier.com
Published: 04/13/2015

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Department of Corrections plans to install new technology to block calls and texts to cellphones in some prisons, where they're considered contraband but still used by inmates inside.

Al.com reports (http://bit.ly/1ynv811) that the goal is to make the cellphones essentially useless.

Steve Brown, the agency's chief of staff, said it plans to install a "managed access" system for Draper, Elmore and Staton correctional facilities -- three prisons in Elmore County.

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