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US Lawmakers Propose Allowing Prisons To Jam Signals From Smuggled Cellphones (apnews.com)

An anonymous reader quotes the Associated Press: Federal legislation proposed Thursday would give state prison officials the ability they have long sought to jam the signals of cellphones smuggled to inmates within their walls... The legislation could help provide a solution to a problem prison officials have said represents the top security threat to their institutions.

Corrections chiefs across the country have long argued for the ability to jam the signals, saying the phones -- smuggled into their institutions by the thousands, by visitors, errant employees, and even delivered by drone -- are dangerous because inmates use them to carry out crimes and plot violence both inside and outside prison.

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  1. Re:they should all be supermax by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    23 hours a day in your cell. 1 hour of exercise.

    So like you in your Momma's basement but with exercising?

  2. Re:Jam a cellphone up my ass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You are really dumb.
    Just set it to vibrate.

  3. Re: Jam a cellphone up my ass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    That phone will get shitty reception.