COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina's prisons chief plans to give an update on his fight to make contraband cell phones useless to the state's inmates.
Director Jon Ozmint is expected Monday to discuss his push to allow prisons to jam cell phone signals.
Federal law prohibits blocking the signals. Ozmint and others say cell phones are a major security threat because they allow inmates uncontrolled access to talk to each other or people outside prison.
A Florida company demonstrated jamming technology in a South Carolina maximum security prison last year.
U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint is sponsoring a bill to allow prisons to jam cell phone signals and allow a federal prison director or governor to ask for permission to use a jamming device.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
You can watch News Channel 7 reporter Robert Kittle's story on cell jamming demonstration (Story aired November 21, 2008)
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