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- avataros, on 07/16/2009, -0/+21I don't need a cell phone. I just talk to Red.
There must be a con like him in every prison in America. He's the guy who can get it for you. Cigarettes, a bag of reefer if that's your thing, a bottle of brandy to celebrate your kid's high school graduation, damn near anything within reason. Yes sir, he's a regular Sears and Roebuck.
Dugg for reminding me of Shawshank. - inactive, on 07/15/2009, -0/+19There is something seriously wrong with that title.
- borez, on 07/16/2009, -1/+10"prohibitive cost?"
Long range high powered cellphone jammers are highly directional, cover the whole cell frequency spectrum GSM 800/900/1800/1900Mhz and CDMA on the incoming down-link ( i.e. there's no incoming signal to connect to) Have a range up up to 500m and block all phones including 3G but don't effect nearby repeaters or base stations. One place at each corner of a prison with 90degree arc dispersion would cover an area of around 800m factoring in an overlap... nothing in, nothing out for around $80,000
What's the problem? - Whackly, on 07/16/2009, -0/+8Let Leia do the thinking.
- sharkydog, on 07/16/2009, -0/+7The reason that inmates have cell phones is that a collect phone call from prison costs about $10.00 to make. So correctional officers exploit the problem by selling cell phones for about $800.00 and then if the inmate gets shook down and the C.O. finds it, he can just go sell it again. Good way to supplement your retirement fund. Anyways, if they'd just stop punishing the family and friends of the inmate by charging them an arm and a leg to make a phone call, this problem would go away.
- Rogor, on 07/16/2009, -1/+7Typical America, messing around for years drafting legislation just in case someone gets upset, They talk about the prohibitive cost but these things are cheap just google it, Asia has had phone jammers in their prisons for over 10 years now.
- DirtPile, on 07/16/2009, -0/+6I was hoping this was going to be about advances in jelly.
- Sihing, on 07/16/2009, -0/+5112 Prisons and only 500 grand?
- Myztry, on 07/16/2009, -0/+5It would make more sense to stick a cell 'tower' in the prison and use it to intercept all communications of a power level that indicates it comes from within the prison. Make possession of a cell phone a weakness and they'll stop using them soon enough.
- funklor, on 07/16/2009, -0/+5Sounds like a good idea?
- MizuhoChan, on 07/16/2009, -0/+5Just send them all to Antarctica. It's the Australia of today.
- cenobyte40k, on 07/16/2009, -0/+4This becomes a great idea around the same time we stop jailing 2 million people. That's close to 1% of the population, doesn't that seem a little high to anyone else.
When we stop jailing people for non-violent drug related offences, then maybe we should talk about how much more the prisoners should be restricted. - s14sh3r, on 07/16/2009, -0/+3Spoken like someone who learned everything he knows about prison on TV and the movies. If inmates want something, they'll get it, no matter the security.
- MercyBuckets, on 07/16/2009, -0/+3Detection technology is in use in Texas, but the state only has half a million dollars, one mobile set, and four full-time employees to patrol 112 prisons, Moriarty said.
"It is very cost prohibitive," he said. "We've found that with as many facilities as we have, it's not a wise use of taxpayer dollars."
Does anyone else find this quote to be just a tad ironic? - Elranzer, on 07/16/2009, -0/+3Back when that show was made, cell phones were less prevalent. They didn't think that the show's viewers would realize that the stolen cellphone's plan would be canceled. They probably thought the cell phone just wirelessly connected to phone lines.
- XeRoX2k2, on 07/16/2009, -0/+320 years of HARD labour in frigid Antarctica will turn anyone straight
unlike the current prison system with their 3 hot meals/day,cable tv,basket ball courts,fitness machines,and ping pong tournaments - CTK14A, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2The only gang color that matters is green.
- ontain, on 07/16/2009, -1/+3it's the government. they'll find the most expensive way to give it to a friend's company.
- borez, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2It'd probably be a little more then that, but it can't be that big of an outlay for the US prison profit machine to swallow. I mean UNICOR alone generated US$854.3 million in sales in 2008.
- wilcocola, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2would have never thought in a million years that prisoners had illicit cell phones
- flaflashr, on 07/16/2009, -1/+3I'm pretty sure the FCC will override any two-bit politician's bid to put in jammers.
- veriix, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2I'm working on a bacon jelly but keep it on the down low.
- insanebrain, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1>"... and I imagine we'd like to keep it that way."
So why should I read the article ? - daysleeperchuk, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1sign at the prison---"Please Finish All Cell Phone Conversations Before Your Cavity Search"
- HotSaucePanCake, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1sounds like my friends
- expatcatalyst, on 07/16/2009, -1/+2Employment opportunities for ex-EWO's! (Electronic Warfare Officers of B-52 fame... Cool!
- chadsmith729, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1Watching what? Some redneck try to be Billy Mays? IMPOSTER!
- carlosos, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1I hope so, there is no reason for prisons to interfere with other peoples phones just because they can't control their own phones in jail. There are other ways for them to block cell phones without jammers.
- 4AntiStupid, on 07/16/2009, -0/+0That should read "Typical Politics".
- JTMON, on 07/16/2009, -1/+1The article states that the main phone the guy is referencing in his story was shared by both aryans and crips?!! I call bs
- Wilson, on 07/16/2009, -1/+1The key to silencing the snitches is to use jams preserved using only the finest jamming technology.
- TheOther1, on 07/16/2009, -2/+2Just another reason Oceania has been at war eith Eurasia for so long.
- minipax - 4AntiStupid, on 07/16/2009, -0/+0That's a real stretch to ram home a double entendre.
- oda1, on 07/16/2009, -2/+2Didn't O'Riley get a Cellphone in OZ? I forget which season, or if it was even him ... it's been a while since I saw that show. I need to buy the DVD's. Man, the last few episodes sucked.
- gkiltz, on 07/16/2009, -1/+1It can reduce it by 30-50 %
PROVIDED that it is powerful enough to cause severe interference to EVERY wireless device within 1 mile, 80% of wireless devices within 2 miles, and 50% of wireless devices within 5 miles of the prison walls.
This might not be a problem in Brushy Mountain TN.
It's a disaster waiting to happen at Jessup MD, the prison that was the first to propose it! - 4AntiStupid, on 07/16/2009, -0/+0Nope.
- XTomTomX, on 07/16/2009, -0/+0Sounds like you got some pitching to do.
- derekmas10, on 07/16/2009, -2/+1and I hope you like Jammin' too.
- oda1, on 07/16/2009, -2/+1That didn't answer my question, *****.
- ryelli, on 07/16/2009, -2/+0I prefer my prisoners jellied . . .
- ivandurakov, on 07/16/2009, -4/+2Frequent tossing of cells, cavity searches, and severe beatings should take care of the problem. Don't throw technology at a flawed process.
- hansolo, on 07/16/2009, -9/+3Why not just make sure there are no cell towers near the prison. The guards can get by without cell phones while working.
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