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Articles tagged with: Prisons
Tecore Networks Gets Permission to Test Phone Jammers in Prisons
..understand alternatives to call-jamming that may be used to manage the use of cell phones in prisons. There have been rising concerns in the USA over the past few months about prisoners using mobile phones that are smuggled into their cells more
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Ascom Wins Prison Communications System Contract
..ided by Ascom Wireless Solutions will be implemented in three phases and will cover six prisons and 34 custody detention centers. In total, the system will increase the personal security for about 3,500 employees working in these institutions. more
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60-Year Sentence for Posessing a Cellphone in Prison
..ticularly sensitive to the issue of cell phones being taken into prisons after the death row inmate, Richard Lee Tabler was able to make threatening phone calls to State Senator, John Whitmire using a phone phone that had been smuggeled into the more
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Cellular Networks Should Surrender Revenue From Illegal Cell Phones
A firm which sells mobile phone jammers for use in prisons is demanding that phone companies be forced to hand over revenues from call time generated by contraband phones. The CEO of CellAntenna Corporation, Howard Melamed said tha the money would pay for the extra guards and equipment needed to tackle the growing epidemic of inmates using cell phones in prisons. more
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Pigeons Smuggling Mobile Phones into Brazilian Prisons
..ere later assembled by the prisoners. The trick of training pigeons to carry contraband into prisons is not a new idea in Brazil and has been used several times in the past few years. In the last case, the pigeons were found near the prison wi more
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Student Arrested for Refusing to Stop Texting in Class
..officer found the phone, concealed in a location more usually reserved for criminals in prisons - namely the "buttocks area". The unnamed student was issued a criminal citation for disorderly conduct, which carried "a bail of $298 more
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UK Prisons Install Scanners to Stop Smuggling of Mobile Phones
The UK's prisons are introducing bottom scanners to prevent the smuggling of mobile phones, which are often hidden inside visitors bodies. The chair shaped scanners, called Body Orifice Security Scanners (Boss), cost £6,500 each and are being introduced in 102 jails around the UK to tackle the crime, reports The Daily Telegraph newspaper. more
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Scotland Bans Mobile Phones in Prisions - Approves use of Jammers
..o continue their life of crime." "The smuggling of mobile phones into prisons is becoming increasingly difficult to detect as the technology is becoming smaller. But the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) is committed to searching for the more
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Seven Prisoners Hospitalised After Hiding Mobile Phones in their Bodies
Pakistan's prisons Department has carried out a series of sweeps of prisoners at Camp Jail using metal detectors and seized 30 mobile phones which had been hidden in their rectums. Seven of the prisoners had to have medical intervention to remove the phones. more
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Prisoner Uses Mobile Phone to Call Radio Station
..nd was "highly embarrassing" for Mr McDowell. "Under this Minister many prisons have turned into operation centres for some of Ireland's most dangerous criminals," he said.The mobile phone has been confiscated." more
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