LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Officials joined together in the Little Rock Justice Building on Friday to call for approval of a program to jam contraband prison cell phones.
Attorney General Tim Griffin was joined by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and members of the state Board of Corrections and law enforcement officials, including the head of the National Sheriff’s Association, in announcing the program.
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Carr said this is the first time the FCC would vote to allow prisons to jam phones. This is a break from FCC policy that has consistently voted to prevent jamming, since it interferes with broadcast signals.
Carr, along with Cotton and Griffin, toured Varner prison prior to the announcement, the site of the Arkansas death row for men. While there, they were shown confiscated cell phones…