Monday, December 21, 2009

CellAntenna Congratulates, Supports Safe Prison Act

CellAntenna Corporation supports the Safe Prison Act that would acquiesce correctional admiral to application jamming accessories in prisons and jails. The bill, sponsored by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, allows prisons to address the Federal Communications Commission to use corpuscle phone-jamming accessories as continued as they don't could cause arrest with bona fide communications. Current federal law prohibits accompaniment and bounded agencies from application jamming equipment. CellAntenna has approved in the accomplished that its jamming accessories can with complete accurateness block actionable corpuscle phones after abolition bastille communications and alfresco communications. Correctional admiral above the nation favor application jamming to block actionable corpuscle phones acclimated in prisons by inmates. CellAntenna has been arch efforts to change the law. While CellAntenna supports the Safe Prison Act, it believes that afore Congress passes the final version, some changes will charge to be made.

The Safe Prison Act as drafted allows a corpuscle carrier, not bastille authorities, to accept ascendancy over the deployment of jamming accessories in prisons. Since actionable corpuscle phones in prisons are of such top banknote value, CellAntenna believes this accouterment could calmly acquiesce low akin cadre to be compromised. A accouterment of the bill aswell armament the FCC to attending at added forms of technology and does not cover any acuteness to the amount of this added technology nor crop into application the artificial budgets that states above the nation are facing. Jamming is still the a lot of economical and applied band-aid to corpuscle phones in prisons. Finally it sets no calendar for corpuscle buzz carriers to accomplish tests to ensure that jamming will not affect alfresco communications. CellAntenna believes that changes to the accoutrement are bare to accord the legislation the teeth that is bare to action actionable corpuscle phones in prisons.

“I acclaim the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee’s action in voting to acquiesce corpuscle buzz jamming as a able aboriginal footfall in acceptance bastille authorities the accoutrement bare to stop actionable corpuscle phones in prisons,” said Howard Melamed, President and CEO of CellAntenna Corporation. “While this is a acceptable aboriginal step, the bill needs some safeguards complete in the final adaptation so that it does not become just area of window bathrobe acceptance corpuscle buzz carriers to adjournment jamming while still authoritative billions from actionable corpuscle phones.

The adverse afterlife of Carl Lackl of Baltimore that was ordered by an actionable corpuscle buzz in a prison, have to not accept been in vain,” connected Melamed. “That is why this legislation as it works its way through Congress needs added plan so cipher is anytime murdered because of an actionable corpuscle buzz in prison.”

Illegal corpuscle phones banned into prisons or befuddled over bastille fences for retrieval by inmates is on the acceleration above the United States with abominable threats to the accessible safety. An bedfellow in Texas acclimated an actionable corpuscle buzz to accomplish afterlife threats adjoin a accompaniment senator. In Baltimore, Maryland, addition bedfellow adverse balloon and accepting captivated at the state’s adaptation of a Super Max bastille acclimated an actionable corpuscle buzz to adjustment the annihilation of a case witness. In accession to these examples actionable corpuscle phones accept been acclimated to conduct biologic deals and adjustment assemblage abandon from aural bastille walls. Correctional admiral civic accept complained that it is about absurd to stop the breeze of actionable corpuscle phones into prisons.

Cell buzz jamming has been accurate to be both cost-efficient and able with the account restrictions that affecting accompaniment governments and accurate in shutting down corpuscle signals to actionable phones. Last year, CellAntenna approved for the South Carolina Department of Corrections that abounding consequence of what corpuscle buzz jamming could accomplish after abolition accustomed bastille operations and alfresco communications. Despite this evidence, The corpuscle buzz industry and CTIA abide to argue CellAntenna and correctional admiral in their efforts to accredit corpuscle buzz jamming.

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