CHAPIN, S.C. (AP) — Federal officials on Friday said they are taking steps that will give state and federal prisons the right to jam the signals of cellphones smuggled to inmates, devices they argue ...

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson supports a federal plan allowing prisons to use jamming technology to block contraband cell phones. READ MORE | FCC approves state power to jam prison cell ...

FULTON COUNTY, GA — The FCC will vote Tuesday, September 30, on a proposal which could ultimately pave the way for state and federal prisons to finally be able to jam the signals of contraband cell ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A new step by the federal government would allow state prisons to block the signals of contraband cellphones, which Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank ...

Robert Johnson was a corrections officer whose job it was to prevent inmates from smuggling cellphones, drugs and other contraband into one of South Carolina’s most violent prisons. But then came the ...