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CELL PHONES
Phone Aiding Jail Convicts
Today Show: Video: Inmates across the country are smuggling in cell phones to commit crimes against innocent people on the outside. Jeff Rosen reports.
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Jamming cell phones in prisons? "We're not there yet."
The legislation is strongly backed by the California Department of Corrections, which reports that the number of contraband cell phones it discovered in ...
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California mulls criminalizing cell phones in prison
Benoit and representatives from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation held a press conference Tuesday to discuss the new bill he is ...
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Prison Cell Phone Crackdown Proposed
Prison staff currently has the ability to monitor all inmate calls that are made through the traditional inmate phone system. Contraband cell phones circumvent this system, and have been used by inmates to coordinate escapes...
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Calif. prisons seek penalties for cell phones
Prison investigators fear they also are being used by gang leaders to order assaults on other inmates and employees and to coordinate the timing of prison ...
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Bill would allow facilities to jam signals, but wireless ...
"Radio signals don't neatly stop at the edge of a prison perimeter fence or right at a wall. That's physics," said Brian Josef, director of regulatory ...
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Can we jam prison cell phones?
That sparked a back and forth on this blog, with people asking why something so simple as a jamming device can't be installed in jails and prisons and state ...
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Contraband Control in Prison
…a consensus all across the country about institutional contraband and the desire to stop it. Especially stopping the introduction of cellular telephones being difficult to trace…In this article I want to talk about the “human factor” identifying people who are bringing contraband into the facility by staff, visitors, and volunteers and how to tell they are dirty.
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FCC Should Allow Jamming Techology In Prisons
Corrections Today
By withholding jamming technology from state and local law enforcement, the Federal Communications Commission violates its own purpase and fails to acknowledge advancing technology.
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BIOMETRICS
Sex Offender Parolees Fitted With GPS Devices
KCRA.com - Sacramento, CA, USA
Public safety will be improved now that every California sex offender on parole is being tracked by GPS technology, the California Department of Corrections... Click the link below to read the entire article:
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Alanco/TSI PRISM to provide RFID inmate tracking systems for 19 U.S. immigration detention facilities.
LexisNexis News
... The national scale of this project will provide high profile exposure of the benefits of RFID tracking technology to the entire corrections industry, particularly due to the ICEDRO focus on operational efficiency and cost control... Click the link below to read the entire article:
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FUSION CENTERS

Dallas Fusion Center Credited for Crime Drop

In each case, the Dallas Police Department's intelligence-gathering and analysis team, known as the Fusion Center...The Dallas center is one of 70 federally funded fusion centers across the country... 

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