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Prison chiefs to feds: let us jam inmate phones

By Randy Travis
Published April 6, 2016
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COLUMBIA, SC - The Federal Communications Commission held a field hearing in Columbia, SC to hear ideas about how to make inmate cell phones 'as worthless as a paperweight." Federal law currently forbids jamming a cell phone signal. Prison chiefs from across the country, including Georgia, are asking the feds to change the law and give them the option.

 

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