{"id":3437,"date":"2011-02-15T09:46:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T09:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:53:13","slug":"cell-phone-prison-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/cell-phone-prison-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell Phone Prison Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/4-mobiles1.jpg\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-376\" title=\"4 mobiles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/4-mobiles1.jpg\" alt width=\"202\" height=\"151\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-376 lazyload\" title=\"4 mobiles\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20202%20151%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"202\" height=\"151\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/4-mobiles1.jpg\"><\/a>Smuggled cell phones inside prisons are becoming an epidemic in the United States, particularly in California where eleven thousand cell phones were seized from prisoners last year.&nbsp; Cell phones have been used to arrange attacks and extortions, and while cell phone jammers have been touted as a solution, they have the less than useful side effect of also jamming official emergency communications.<\/p>\n<p>While the situation is not nearly so extreme in the state of Utah, it is still a growing concern, as Steve Gehrke, a spokesman for the state\u2019s Department of Corrections, told journalists on Monday.&nbsp; \u201cWhen you get a cell phone in here, you don\u2019t know the type of conversations that are occurring, you don\u2019t know the type of security threats that are out there when someone is just using a cell phone that they got in through contraband or through ways that aren\u2019t approved,\u201d he says, adding that the state of Utah is still in a \u201cWait and see\u201d holding position over what to do about what is a growing nationwide trend.&nbsp; Gehrke also addressed the suggestion of using cell phone jammers to deal with the problem, noting that \u201cYou don\u2019t know how far the impact of that jamming system is\u2026 You\u2019ve got to find a method that really works well to target exactly what you\u2019re going for, but doesn\u2019t have any collateral damage to the emergency communication devices\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>One possible solution is a \u201cmanaged access\u201d system that has just been tried out in Mississippi, which can actually detect and then block specific unauthorized cellular signals.&nbsp; The cost, however, is the snag \u2013 around one million per dollars per prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smuggled cell phones inside prisons are becoming an epidemic in the United States, particularly in California where eleven thousand cell phones were seized from prisoners last year.  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