District of Columbia (WIS), South Carolina-The Department of Justice (DOJ) released a report on Wednesday showing that cell phone portable jammer technology in prisons can be successful without damaging external phones.
Mobile phone interference will prevent prison phones from communicating with nearby cell towers and make them unusable.
The technology was tested for the first time at Broad River Correctional in Colombia in April. This is the first time it has been tested in a state prison.
According to the report, this technology has stopped using cell phone signals in dormitories, but calls can be made outside the equipment.
However, according to the FCC, interference with any type of cell phone signal is currently against federal law.
According to the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC), mobile phones are the most dangerous weapon in prisons today, posing a threat to other prisoners, the public and judicial personnel.
The officials were referring to Captain Robert Johnson, a former correctional officer at the Lee Correctional Institution, who was shot and killed six times at home in 2010 when a prisoner beat him with a cell phone.
Last year, smuggled phone calls were also used in “extortion”, in which prisoners extorted money from American service staff after spending online when they were young. The plan resulted in the death of a member of the Upstate service due to suicide.
SCDC director Bryan Stirling is confident that Congress will hold a hearing to discuss the cell phone interference reform law, which was introduced by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) earlier this year.
Sterling said: “I didn’t talk to people in South Carolina or this country. He said it didn’t make any sense.” “If we know this technology works, it’s incredible that state prisons cannot interfere with cell phone signals. ”
Since 2015, SCDC has confiscated more than 25,000 mobile phones from the state prison system.