Prison phone jamming demo canceled, inmates promptly order more pizza
by Chris Ziegler 
posted Jan 13th 2009 at 3:48AM
There's been a little bit of drama brewing out in DC lately, and for good reason: prisoners' ability to order pizza, drugs, and hits from the comfort of their cells is at risk. After ordering an in-prison signal blocking demo using equipment provided by infrastructure firm CellAntenna, the Washington DC Department of Corrections promptly earned the wrath of the CTIA which took its complaint to the FCC, arguing that such a demo violates the law. The FCC twiddled its thumbs (as federal agencies tend to do), so the association went to court where it sued to block CellAntenna from doing its thing. Before it had a chance to respond, though, the jail canceled its demo -- problem solved. The CTIA agrees that prisoners aren't the type of folks you want toting phones, but suggests that blocking signals from prisons altogether isn't the right way to solve the problem; if we were a guard, we'd probably agree.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
vaxick @ Jan 13th 2009 5:14AM
Wait, why the hell do they even have cell phones in the first place? The whole concept of being in jail is the isolation so you can spend your days thinking about what you did. Not talking to everybody on the outside.
djCarbon @ Jan 13th 2009 8:27AM
Dude... Its called "smuggling" for a reason... They smuggle them in up their butts and then sell them to the highest bidder or baddest mo fo... Duuuuh
duh @ Jan 13th 2009 11:13AM
It's simple. Just get rid of power outlets.
Gib @ Jan 13th 2009 1:13PM
How the hell do you smuggle a pizza in!? You get the Dominoes boy to stuff the deep dish up is ass and then meet you in the conjugal room??
Mark @ Jan 13th 2009 5:36PM
You order the pizza and end up with his sausage.
youngcalihottie @ Jan 13th 2009 4:34PM
regardless of how they get the phones in there, its illegal to block signal and it needs to remain that way.
Pizza Delivey Guy @ Jan 15th 2009 10:11PM
Better be a hell of a good tip involved before I'd smuggle a pizza into a jail.