Republican legislators in the US house and the Senate are introducing in their respective congress chambers, which would enable state and state correctional facilities to use Handy Jamming systems that disrupt and impair wireless communication. (Stock Photo/Getty Pictures)
Washington -Senator Tom Cotton from Arkansas and MP David Kustoff from Tennessee on Wednesday to prevent imprisoned people from using smuggling bodies through devices -Jamming systems.
The Republican legislators reintroduce the identical legislation in their respective congress chambers, which would enable state and state correctional facilities to use these systems that disrupt and impair wireless communication.
Federal law currently prohibited The use of cell phone jamming devices, since the devices can affect 911 calls and endanger the correspondence of public security.
“Smuggling bodies are dangerous weapons within prison walls,” said Cotton at a press conference in the US Capitol With regard to the invoice.
“We have applied to this blatant threat to public security activities for too long, as crimes are planned, relieved and ordered by convicted criminals that have already been in prison,” he said.
Cotton made it clear that the equipment would not interrupt the normal communication of law enforcement and emergency helpers -and state officials “had complete discretion games about where and how this jamming equipment in prison facilities was used”.
The measure requires that the Federal Communications Commission – which is responsible for the matter – “do not prevent the correction facilities of these systems”.
The system operations would be narrow to the residential units of the prison or prison.
Cotton said they would work with the FCC if the invoice was passed to ensure that it will be implemented in a careful and deliberate way that solves the problem that our prison leaders have in their prison without having unintentional consequences. “
Kustoff said: “It shouldn’t really be possible for people to order hits on humans behind prison sticks, carry out gang activities through traffic drugs while they are behind the walls of a prison.”
“The extent of these coordinated criminal activities carried out by occupants is a serious threat to everyone – those who protect and protect those in prison, as well as those in our communities,” he said.
The Urban Institute Sermons surveyed and found that in 2020 more than 25,000 mobile phones were recovered in their facilities in 20 countries.
Meanwhile a Non -partisan coalition of the Attorney General Under the direction of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and the US virgin islands, the leaders of the house and the Senate wrote to support the measure, and asked them to adopt legislation in their respective chambers.
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At the press conference, the Attorney General of Arkansas, Tim Griffin, and the leadership of the State Ministry for Corrections and the Arkansas State Police “Betting” The fact that this law will become law “said.
Griffin, which described the measure as “fundamentally common sense”, cited examples of dangers that were exposed to the use of these banned phones, including a convicted rapist, of which he said that Smuggling cell phone plan his escape from prison.
The FCC did not respond on Wednesday to a request for comments.
