Solution Exists to Curb Contraband Cellphones, American Correctional Association Says
The American Correctional Association asked the FCC to do everything it can to curb contraband cellphones in prisons, in a filing posted Friday in docket 13-111. “We state emphatically that a technological solution exists if the FCC is able to…
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view this as a public safety matter that trumps the FCC's traditional modes of operation,” ACA said. Contraband cellphones pose “an extremely serious and proven threat to the safety of staff and inmates and to the overall security” of correctional facilities, the group said. “Correctional facility administrators, wardens and staff should have the best technology and toolset available to them to combat this illicit cell phone use.” In March, the FCC approved rules and a Further NPRM designed to combat the reported flood of the contraband devices (see 1703230056).