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  2. Mobile phones in prison - Wikipedia

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    In 2017, a prison in Bristol added telephones and computers which were not connected to the internet into the prison cells in an attempt to combat illegal mobile phone usage. [24] [25] The UK Parliament passed a law which would allow mobile phone operators to jam cell phone signals in prisons later that year. The legislation also enabled prison ...

  3. Mobile phone jammer - Wikipedia

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    Example of a mobile phone jammer, produced by Jammerspro. A mobile phone jammer or blocker is a device which deliberately transmits signals on the same radio frequencies as mobile phones, disrupting the communication between the phone and the cell-phone base station, effectively disabling mobile phones within the range of the jammer, preventing them from receiving signals and from transmitting ...

  4. Carr wants to know why FCC won't allow prison cell phone jamming

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    (The Center Square) – Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr wants to know why the Federal Communications Commission will not let law enforcement jam prison and jail cell phones. Cellphones are not ...

  5. IMSI-catcher - Wikipedia

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    A virtual base transceiver station (VBTS) [5] is a device for identifying the temporary mobile subscriber identity (TMSI), international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) of a nearby GSM mobile phone and intercepting its calls, some are even advanced enough to detect the international mobile equipment identity (IMEI).

  6. Electronic monitoring in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Prison overcrowding in CA led to a 2011 court order to reduce the state prison population by 30,000 inmates.. In the aftermath of decades-long tough on crime legislation that increased the US inmate population from 200,000 [6] in 1973 to over two million in 2009, [7] financially strapped states and cities turned to technology—wrist and ankle monitors—to reduce inmate populations as courts ...

  7. FCC Will Cap the Cost of Prison Phone Calls - AOL

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    Earlier this year, two lawsuits accused Michigan sheriff's offices of banning in-person jail visits and forcing families to use phone calls and video chats, starting at $10 for a 25-minute video ...

  8. Chinese airline passengers spend 5 days in jail for phone use

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  9. Radio jamming - Wikipedia

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    Radio jamming is the deliberate blocking of or interference with wireless communications. [1] [2] In some cases, jammers work by the transmission of radio signals that disrupt telecommunications by decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio. [3] The concept can be used in wireless data networks to disrupt information flow. [4]