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Senate Passes Cell Phone Jamming bill
US Senate Passes Bill Allowing Cellphone-Jamming In Prisons - WSJ.com
US Senate Passes Bill Allowing Cellphone-Jamming In Prisons - WSJ.com
Senate Passes Cell Phone Jamming bill
US Senate Passes Bill Allowing Cellphone-Jamming In Prisons - WSJ.com
Would there be a way for the CO's to instead just track down the signals from illegal phones?
Jamming seems like such an easy out and just covers up the real problem. How are those phones getting in to begin with.
I would imagine if you can get a phone in, then you can get all sorts of other things in.
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"I would imagine if you can get a phone in, then you can get all sorts of other things in."
You have a very good imagination, they use them to place orders for drugs among other black market items and run gang activities all from the comfort of their cell (phone).
"Why do it right, when you can write a stupid and futile law?"
Good point, wouldn't it be more practical to get the FCC to put an exemption clause in the law against "deliberate and malicious interference"?
Actually a jammer need not emit a broad band signal to be effective, just block the control channel and the phone is rendered useless. You don't need a whole lot of power either, a few emitters in key locations will do it and there is a bonus, the guards' phones will operate normally except in those areas where prisoners are housed.
"Get with the program!"
Don't tell me, write your elected representatives. Er, maybe I'm being a bit presumptive in assuming they can read.... never mind.
Now if only they would ban weights, TVs, radios, and actually lock them up for a majority of each day then prison might actually a punishment instead of a University for criminals.
...but I digress.
My angle would be intercept the cell communication for investigative intelligence. LE has equipment that can monitor selected cell targets. The equipment disregards those not targeted by a simple subscriber power off then on.
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How are they suposed to know which phones are "Targets"?
Register known (non target) phones on the surveillance equipment, then the equipment monitors the (local unregistered) uplink and network frequencies. Normally a Court Order is required to monitor specific cell phone(s). The legal implications would be interesting for using this technique within a prison.
It seems that you think this is a lot easier then it really is.