Call to ban sale of mini mobile phones
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#2Why not just let prisoners have free access to the phone? This has never made sense to me.
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#3Why not just let prisoners have free access to the phone? This has never made sense to me.
It’s to stop them from being able to continue to commit crimes from the inside.
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#4Couldn’t you use a gsm jammer inside the prison instead?
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#5Still waiting for the UK to ban knives.
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#6Re: Call to ban sale of mini mobile phones
#7Couldn’t you use a gsm jammer inside the prison instead?
You cannot use a jammer of any kind in the United States, for almost all values of you, including state and federal penal agencies. https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement
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#9Why not just let prisoners have free access to the phone? This has never made sense to me.
It’s to stop them from being able to continue to commit crimes from the inside.
This is an ongoing problem in mexican prisons, see:
http://www.newsweek.com/el-chapo-puente-grande-mexico-582319
Re: Call to ban sale of mini mobile phones
#10Why not just let prisoners have free access to the phone? This has never made sense to me.
I'm not sure that total deregulation of the prison phone market is a good idea, but at least in the United States, the current solution is pretty outrageous [0]. There is a a reasonable censoring role to be played by the prison (same as it is for mail), but like much else about prison system, seems served by rent-seekers [1].
[0] https://theintercept.com/2017/06/16/fcc-prison-phone-call-ra...
[1] https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/11/20/indiana...