Cell phone signal jammers could help reduce crime coordinated from behind bars. But prisoner advocates say other solutions would be better.

While phone call prices have been slashed in half, family members fear rising costs to use state-issued tablets.

"This legislation is a common-sense step to cut off their ability to threaten witnesses, organize drug trafficking and endanger law-abiding citizens from with prison walls." The use of cell phones ...

The ask would not be limited to just DAs ... usage in both state and federal prison facilities. Currently, it is against federal law to use cell phone jammers, which intentionally block, jam ...

which are often used illegally to direct criminal activities both inside and outside the prison system. The proposed legislation would lift the federal ban on the use of cell phone jamming systems ...

The legislation would allow state prisons to use cellphone ... deadliest prison riots in United States history. In July 2023, SCDC launched a pilot program that deactivated cell phones found ...