Impressed with the successful tests of mobile phone signal jamming technology used at a South Carolina prison, officials are now working on implementing mobile phone jamming in Texas.

Jerry Madden, Chairman of the House Corrections Committee, said: “It would take a change in federal law to allow jamming such as this, but I would hope there could be some action to change the law sooner rather than later.”

The proposed date for the mobile phone jamming technology to be tried out in Travis County state jail in Austin Texas is the 18th of December.

The issue of mobile phones in prisons was highlighted after Richard Lee Tabler, a condemned double murderer made calls via a mobile phone from his death row cell to Senator John Whitmire last month.

Source — policeone