Seems a little ridiculous to me, just install IMSI catchers in the prison, and you can monitor and/or block calls from any phone whatever the size or composition.
Call to ban sale of mini mobile phones
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except that they can't without using proxies on the outside. Instead, we decide that they no longer have a right to communicate or express themselves to anyone outside the prison. It seems like a more effective and humane method is to allow them free telephone usage, with the complete disclosure and knowledge that their conversations are being listened to/recorded. If crimes being driven by their command are executed…
Exactly how many prisoners have a criminal empire to run from prison. Most of them have nothing. And communication would be of no concern, or am I missing something.
The problem is how to determine that someone is a "low risk" mule for coded communication. (For favours inside prison or later outside.) So the solution is a wide ban indeed.
Like with many such "solutions" its efficacy is not evaluated.
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#63Why not make Faraday cages in prisons, or use cell phone blockers?
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lead paint? :) - Just kidding...
Why kidding? That should work. Paintings with metals is really a thing. Lead is toxic to human, any other metal can do.
I suspect any quantity of metal sufficient to act as an RF shield or Faraday cage would be toxic to humans in paint form.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why kidding? That should work. Paintings with metals is really a thing. Lead is toxic to human, any other metal can do.
I suspect any quantity of metal sufficient to act as an RF shield or Faraday cage would be toxic to humans in paint form.
Unless ingested, iron should be fine. It is also low maintenance.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
One circumstance: a lot of men* are in prison for domestic violence. The victims are often close to completely emotionally and mentally broken. The offenders often have equally manipulative friends who are not incarecerated. Allowing such prisoners unfettered phone access to 1) potentially contact victims or 2) contact friends to harass victims, seems like it is worth avoiding. Words can be very powerful and escaping…
There are already legal mechanisms such as a judge's order (not to mention technical methods) to address such cases. Banning every convict from using a phone is like swatting a fly with a Buick.
They should use phone access as a carrot. Good behavior? You get more access to a phone. Bad behavior? You don't.
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#67When I saw its ad, I really thought that it'll create hype for a while