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Senate Greenlights Jamming Cell Signals Near Prisons

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acdc1a

Aug 6, 2009, 12:19 PM
If we allow jamming for prisons we start down a very slippery slope. I don't want the government to be telling me where I can and can't use my cell phone.
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Pocket_Girl

Aug 6, 2009, 12:24 PM
I guess i understand where they are coming from. It's just a security issue for them, being a prison and all.

But at the same time i don't want them controlling where i can use my cellphone, cause they could get out of hand with this idea.

none of us want that .... 😛
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en102

Aug 6, 2009, 1:22 PM
Exactly... it is a prison, and communication SHOULD be limited to those that are in the running of the prison. The only other way would be to line the prisons with a lead mesh to kill signals (vs jamming), or requiring cell sites to be a minimum distance away, or bury the prison underground.

This is a government security area, and should be kept as such. If I went onto a military base, I'd expect rules such as this as well.
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techjunky

Aug 6, 2009, 4:05 PM
i dont know. it could be dangerous. prisions operated well without jamming of cell phones. the staff at prisions have families what if something like a riot broke out at a prision, how would u call for help? yeah land line, radio..but come on. i can understand the logic but i think it could make more problems than it actually solves.
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Pocket_Girl

Aug 6, 2009, 4:18 PM
true. like what if the prisoners take over. and they have control of the landlines and radios in the prison so no one can call out? if a guard had a cellphone on him... he can call for help... maybe even text a message to 911 if they are in Iowa! 🤣
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rigoni

Aug 6, 2009, 5:59 PM
haha i would find it all around silly and the fact remains why are we jammming them i mean for the one guy who got the phone in by like sticking it in places. common really its just as silly as texting 911 when there is a riot, o well let them jam them sucks to be the guards who like to text at work
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filoman

Aug 6, 2009, 7:10 PM
Prisons do not let officers bring cell phones to work (think about it).
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rigoni

Aug 6, 2009, 7:31 PM
yes they do why wouldent they let them bring them in besides that they could just bring them in i dont see guards having to get patted down or anything, anyway you put it guards bring them in or someone figures out a way thats the way it goes, jammin cell phones is silly anyway i mean jamming signals seems like a waist of money
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filoman

Aug 6, 2009, 9:45 PM
I'm a officer with New York State dept. of Corrections ( 24 years) . We CANNOT have or even use a cell phone while on duty. Its is a firing offense. The only cell phones we use are state issue OUTSIDE the prison when transporting or working with outside inmate work crews ect. Fact !
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Versed

Aug 8, 2009, 10:22 PM
filoman said:
I'm a officer with New York State dept. of Corrections ( 24 years) . We CANNOT have or even use a cell phone while on duty. Its is a firing offense. The only cell phones we use are state issue OUTSIDE the prison when transporting or working with outside inmate work crews ect. Fact !


Thanks for the good information, so that means all those phones inside are illegal, pass a law, 5 years extension to one's sentence with no parole for having one. 15 years for anyone smuggling one in. If that doesn't work in a few years, then lets re-visit the blockage plan.
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filoman

Aug 9, 2009, 6:35 PM
Yes they are illegal !!!
I think the real issue with inmates getting their hand on a cell phone is security within the prison. Communicating with the outside is easy. their allowed too, Land line,letters,visits and legal visits. But cell phones can be used to organize within or prison to prison. This is a security issue. Now factor in your growing future domestic terror issue. Their being grown in our prisons.
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Jayshmay

Aug 6, 2009, 2:03 PM
Then don't find yourself in prison.
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mrpmpfan

Aug 7, 2009, 7:07 PM
This argument is like saying you don't want restrictions on what types of guns you can purchase. Why do you care if a prision can't use cell service plan on serving time?
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Versed

Aug 8, 2009, 10:19 PM
mrpmpfan said:
This argument is like saying you don't want restrictions on what types of guns you can purchase. Why do you care if a prision can't use cell service plan on serving time?


What does guns have to do with cell phones, makes no sense. Last I checked an iphone or blackberry didn't mow down kids in school. Keep it to the point.
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iori276

Aug 10, 2009, 9:47 AM
Technically the goverment is tell us when we can and cant. Starting to. With the new no texting or calling with driving their pushing. Which i dont really care, im in the military i cant even walk around with a bluetooth on, or walk and talk on a cell ( I do but you really arent supposed to. ) But thats military. Soon though 🙂 states are going to give in, they are in a bind as it is and with federal money being threatened they will comply.
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Vipermad

Aug 10, 2009, 11:07 AM
acdc1a said:
If we allow jamming for prisons we start down a very slippery slope. I don't want the government to be telling me where I can and can't use my cell phone.


Well...thank goodness they aren't telling YOU where YOU can use YOUR phone!!! They're telling the prisoners where THEY CAN'T use THEIR phones! That way, the prisoners can call, from behind the wall, and order some other people to murder you and your family. We started down a slippery slope when we let idiots drive and have cell phones....

Besides...if it is on government property you, by definition of entering said property, agree to their rules. Ever drive on a military base? Their sandbox, their rules. Don't like it? Stay...
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