South Carolina’s Department of Corrections has received a big boost in its efforts to get the Federal Communications Commission to allow it to jam cell phone signals within prisons. Corrections director Jon Ozmint announced Monday that 26 other states, plus the Philadelphia Prison System and the District of Columbia Department of Corrections, have signed South Carolina’s petition to the FCC. Right now, it’s illegal to jam cell phone signals. South Carolina’s petition to the FCC is asking it to make an exception for prisons. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter Robert Kittle has more.

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The South Carolina Department of Corrections has a new tool to fight crime from within its prison walls.  It’s a new technology called cell phone jamming. WJBF News Channel 6’s Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has the story.

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