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CTIA Tackling Cell Phone Jammers

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NapalmBBQ

Jan 7, 2009, 7:22 PM
Why in hell do inmates have cell phones? 👿
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PhonemanJ

Jan 7, 2009, 7:35 PM
They're not supposed to. That is why there is such an interest in a jamming system. Prisoners get phones (usually prepaid so there is no tracing ownership) and use them. The Prison system has no control over this, so they figure that if all cell signals are jammed going in and out of the jail, then the prisoners will no longer have as easy a time with unsupervised communication with the outside world.

As far as I am concerned, this is one area where the CTIA should not stick its nose. Once one goes to prison, he, or she, should sacrifice all rights that they had on the outside, with the exception of basic human rights. That does not mean that beatings and torture should go on, but communication with the outside world should be on a stric...
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rayborn

Jan 8, 2009, 10:51 AM
D.C. CANCELS CELLPHONE JAMMING DEMO
AFTER CTIA CHALLENGES FCC STA IN COURT

The District of Columbia Department of Corrections today canceled tomorrow’s planned demonstration of mobile phone signal jamming technology in the wake of a legal challenge filed earlier in the day by CTIA.

“We’re not having a demonstration tomorrow,” Beverly Young, a spokeswoman for the D.C. agency, told TRDaily. She said Mayor Adrian Fenty’s office had ordered the demonstration called off but didn’t know why. Asked whether the demonstration might be rescheduled, Ms. Young replied, “I don’t know at this time.”

Howard Melamed, president and chief executive officer of Coral Springs, Fla.-based CellAntenna Co...
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tlgreene1021

Jan 8, 2009, 3:51 PM
The issue I see with this is that not every prison is out in the middle of nowhere and would negatively affect people who live NEAR the prison.
I fully do agree that prisoners shouldn't have access to cell phones but there are much better and LEGAL alternatives.

Let's analyze the problem at hand: Prisoners having access to cell phones. Okay, so how are they getting the cell phones? Well, probably the most common way is through the mail or poor searches of inmates after a visit from someone on the outside...

So what's the logical solution to the problem? A crackdown on the personnel who are checking the mail before distributing them to the prisoners as well as the people responsible for doing the searches to make sure they aren't ...
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