South Carolina Attorney General Calls on FCC, Congress to Allow Prison Cell Jamming
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson (R) called on Congress and the FCC to grant state prisons the authority to jam contraband cellphones in their facilities, following a report by state grand jurors highlighting the issue. The 34th and 35th…
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State Grand Jurors released reports Wednesday finding that inmate criminal organizations are still able to operate with their leaders in prison. “Locking someone up doesn’t make us safer if they’re still running criminal empires from behind bars,” Wilson said: "We know how to stop this; the technology already exists and is being used in federal prisons." Jamming inmates' cellphone communication "would immediately eliminate so much of the criminal activities within our state prisons," one of the reports said.