LITTLE ROCK, ARK. — The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote on an order in the coming weeks that will allow state prisons and local jails to jam cellphone signals.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said the legislation would create a powerful tool for corrections officers to mitigate illegal schemes managed by inmates.
From a podium in Little Rock on Oct. 28, Carr told reporters that a South Carolina case encouraged him to focus on the scope and scale of the issue of contraband cellphones in detention facilities…