Feds Testing Cell Phone Signal Jamming Technology in Prison
February 19, 2010 2:09 PM | Interesting | Comments (0)
The battle to remove cell phones from the hands of prison inmates saw a major breakthrough this week. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) authorized the first federally sanctioned test of cell phone signal jamming technology inside the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, MD using CellAntenna technology. |  |
“The issue of contraband cell phones inside America’s prisons has reached pandemic proportions, and this test is a big step toward ending the deaths and illegal activities that can be linked back to convicts with cell phone reception. The Federal government and the NTIA are acknowledging the fact that cell phones in prisons pose a deadly and unnecessary risk to citizens,” said Howard Melamed, CellAntenna CEO. “This test should be a wakeup call for legislators and corrections departments everywhere, because it proves that cell phone jamming is a solution for making our prisons safer.”
CellAntenna is cooperating with the NTIA and other Federal agencies to develop standards for jamming in prisons because the agencies recognize that the best solution to the issue of contraband cell phones is jamming.
The Maryland test comes after another conducted at a 400-inmate correctional facility in another state where CellAntenna’s new CJAM-CPC cell phone controlling technology was able to identify 239 cell phones.
“Quite obviously, the problem of cell phone use in prisons is bigger than anyone had thought,” said Melamed. “More than half of the inmates in the prison had cell phones, which is greater than the 10 percent rate that was expected.”
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