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.

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.

Even though cell phones are banned inside South Carolina prisons, even for employees, they’re very popular inside prison cells. The state Department of Corrections found about one thousand cell phones or cell phone components inside its prisons in the past year, says agency spokesman Josh Gelinas. WJBF News Channel 6’s Capitol reporter, Robert Kitle, has the story.

Federal regulators say they are willing to work with South Carolina officials who want to jam cell phone signals in prisons.