FCC Wrong not To Target Contraband Cellphones, Pai Says
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai told the Corrections Technology Association the FCC has been too slow to help find a solution to combating contraband cellphones in correctional facilities. The FCC should make it easier for prisons and carriers to work together…
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on the problem, but hasn’t acted, Pai said. “That’s a shame, and a disservice to the American public,” he said. Pai has raised the issue repeatedly, including at a field hearing in South Carolina in April (see 1604060058). “This issue isn’t an abstraction to me,” Pai said in his written remarks. “Over the past few months, I have heard directly from corrections officers who are on the front lines. I have visited with guards at prisons in Jackson, Georgia, in Bishopville, South Carolina, and in Leavenworth, Kansas. And later this week, I’ll be visiting a correctional facility in Boston.” The bottom line is “we have to prevent inmates from using contraband cellphones,” he said.