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US Senate Passes Bill Allowing Cellphone-Jamming In Prisons
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The Senate late Monday approved a bill to allow jailers to jam cellphone connections inside prisons. Recent high-profile cases of contraband cellphones in prisons, coupled with the buzz over cell-jamming legislation, is helping spur a new market for wireless companies and intelligence contractors bent on stopping inmate cellphone use.
The bill, sponsored by the Senate Commerce Committee's ranking Republican, Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, allows prisons to petition the Federal Communications Commission to use cellphone-jamming devices as long as they don't cause interference with bona fide communications.
"This legislation will disconnect the communications networks that prisoners and criminal enterprises have patched together using smuggled cellphones," said Hutchison.
The bill calls for the FCC to write rules on cell-jamming. The commission would be required to conduct field tests of proposed equipment and consider other available technologies designed to stop unauthorized use of cellphones in prisons.
Current law bans jamming devices in all but a few isolated instances.
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