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Cell phone jamming is being tested in prisons as we speak. Who cares about cell phones in prisons?? I just want to be able to enjoy a movie at the theater without a cell phone interruption. ;)

Equipment that jams cell phones will get its first federally sanctioned test inside a prison in Maryland this week, as state officials try to show Congress how the technology can prevent inmates from using the contraband devices to commit crimes, a governor's spokesman said Tuesday.
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Actually.. I'm kinda surprised this hasn't already been done. I mean their not supposed to have phones so aside from annoying the guards what'd be the harm?
 
RickyJ said:
Wait, they allow cell phones in prison? :eek:
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No. This is nice twice.....block the phones an inmate night smuggle in, and the ones an officer might bring to talk to his girl. Of course it would blow for anyone living nearby (like the jail near here that's surrounded on all four sides by homes (right across the street).
 
Believe it or not, this is actually a big deal. I know some people that work in Federal Prisons, and there is a lot of organized crime that would take a serious blow if this works out.
 
RickyJ said:
Wait, they allow cell phones in prison? :eek:
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They are absolutely not allowed, and CO's make BIG money bringing them in for inmates. $1,500.00 at the prison I used to work at, one time payment to an officer for bringing a cell phone to an inmate.

The contraband trade is big business inside. Couple that with states that don't pay their corrections officers even the low end of jack shit, and you've got a problem.

This is good news.
 
provoko said:
How do you jam a cell phone??????????
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With raspberry, if you ask Lonestar.

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PNut12345 said:
They are absolutely not allowed, and CO's make BIG money bringing them in for inmates. $1,500.00 at the prison I used to work at, one time payment to an officer for bringing a cell phone to an inmate.

The contraband trade is big business inside. Couple that with states that don't pay their corrections officers even the low end of jack shit, and you've got a problem.

This is good news.
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Maybe where YOU worked, but not here. Don't imply all CO's are mules.:mad: The only cases WE had were all civilians.
 
or the ones that got caught. But yeah, most the CO's I knew were upstanding.
 
Give us stimulus money and we will buy jammers, yeah that's the ticket. Who exactly is going to control these jammers? Oh, that's right, the same people who get paid to bring them in or look the other way in the first place. It doesn't matter if we are tough on crime, it only matters that we appear to be tough on crime. Soapbox off.
 
Monkey34 said:
Maybe where YOU worked, but not here. Don't imply all CO's are mules.:mad: The only cases WE had were all civilians.
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Oh, I'm certainly not implying that, not at all. I was a CO, and I was not a mule. We also had civilian idiots, like the nurse that outted several informants to gang members inside.:mad:

The dummy. Working with the local PD now, I know she's still involved with bangers because she gets her ass kicked by her banger "boyfriends" all the time.
 
StoneTZ said:
or the ones that got caught. But yeah, most the CO's I knew were upstanding.
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Yeah, sorry for the underlying tone there...most (99%) of the guys and girls I worked with were stand-up folks. Even though we were getting paid beans for what we did.
 
I live in MD and this is kind of a big thing...they say they confiscated more than 1000 cell phones from inmates in this state last year alone.
 
also my hat is off to you correctional officers, you couldnt pay me to willingly walk into a prison any day, much less every day.
 
It seems like this is just a bill to allow prisons to petition the FCC to allow this. From what I've seen the FCC has been a fairly good guardian of the EM spectrum and likely won't grant licenses for this lightly.
 
Monkey34 said:
No. This is nice twice.....block the phones an inmate night smuggle in, and the ones an officer might bring to talk to his girl. Of course it would blow for anyone living nearby (like the jail near here that's surrounded on all four sides by homes (right across the street).
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Cell phone jammers are cheaply and readily available. While you can make a super powerful and expensive one that wipes out one city block worth of coverage, the majority of these jammers have a hard time penetrating walls. If you live close enough to a prison that these little jammers interfere with your signal in your bedroom, you're probably doing time.
 
I'm surprised they're trying to jam them at all. Prisons are a booming business and what better way to keep them going than keeping the prisoners there and eventually catching their friends.
 
maademperor said:
my hat is off to you correctional officers, you couldnt pay me to willingly walk into a prison any day, much less every day.
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QFT. I always watch those documentaries whenever possible (I always find them interesting) and no matter how much I try to put myself into their shoes, I don't think I'd be cut out for that kind of job.

Back on topic, I think this is good news, and I'm also joining the "What took them so long?" bandwagon... I kinda thought this would be one of their most important security measures... :confused:
 
Mr.Grape said:
I'm surprised they're trying to jam them at all. Prisons are a booming business and what better way to keep them going than keeping the prisoners there and eventually catching their friends.
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Some sexual predators are using smartphones. 'Nuff said?
 
Cell phones can not be monitored so they want them jammed. If an inmate uses the public phone it can be monitored. I've done a bit of time (6 months) in a max security here in Canada and you would be surprised what an inmate can put up his ass. Full size bic lighters? No problem. My cell mate had 14 kinder eggs up his ass full of every drug you could think of no lie. I was stoned for a week straight LOL
 
maleficarus said:
Cell phones can not be monitored so they want them jammed. If an inmate uses the public phone it can be monitored. I've done a bit of time (6 months) in a max security here in Canada and you would be surprised what an inmate can put up his ass. Full size bic lighters? No problem. My cell mate had 14 kinder eggs up his ass full of every drug you could think of no lie. I was stoned for a week straight LOL
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Alrighty then.
 
not sure if its a big deal... i mean its not easy to get this done legally, but once its in effect the communication system in prisons will just go back to the way it was pre-1998
 
krupted said:
not sure if its a big deal... i mean its not easy to get this done legally, but once its in effect the communication system in prisons will just go back to the way it was pre-1998
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I think it should go further back to pre-1923 using the crank phone. Calls should go through an operator switch board for absolute monitoring.
 
Azhar said:
Alrighty then.
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LOL

anyway...

I am sure the FCC has a thing or two to say about this, and I really don't think they are going to be pleased that they are using jammers since they are basically illegally broadcasting in spectrum they do not own... something the FCC takes pretty seriously especially in cellular bands...

the funny thing is some providers (ex. ATT) use 800mhz spectrum, the same spectrum most trunked 2-way radio systems are on... so if they put 800mhz jammers in the prisons down here, their radios would not work lol
 
FLECOM said:
I am sure the FCC has a thing or two to say about this, and I really don't think they are going to be pleased that they are using jammers since they are basically illegally broadcasting in spectrum they do not own... something the FCC takes pretty seriously especially in cellular bands...
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You just summarized the whole article.
 
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