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Cell Phones News Archive14-Apr-2009Cell phones in hands of prisoners raise serious security issues (The Fresno Bee) Cell Phones here. Cell Phones there. Cell Phones everywhere. Including in state prisons, and that's a huge problem for a corrections system that doesn't need anymore challenges. Cell phones learning ABCs (The Washington Times) LAS VEGAS | Goodbye, numeric cell phone keypads. You're going the way of the rotary dial. Touch screens and QWERTY keyboards will take over from here, thank you. At North America's largest cell-phone trade show in Las Vegas there were few new phones for the U.S. market that had a numerical keypad instead of an alphabetic keyboard. Touch screens also were out in force. These changes are a ... Space: The Final Frontier for Cell Phones? (Wireless Newsfactor) The vast, thinly populated expanses of the country that still lack cell phone coverage could be getting an interesting option next year: ordinary-looking cell phones that connect to a satellite when there's no cell tower around. In June, a rocket is scheduled to lift the largest commercial satellite yet into space. In orbit 22,000 miles above the Earth, the satellite will unfurl an umbrella of ... Prisons Fight Against Smuggled Cell Phones (Officer.com) Officials are lobbying for a FCC waiver so they can use jamming devices to disrupt cell phone signals inside prisons. Prisons Seek Penalties For Smuggled Cell Phones (FOX40 Sacramento) VACAVILLE - California prison officials are backing a bill in the state Senate that would make it a misdemeanor for inmates or employees to have cell phones in prisons. Officials fear the phones are being used to coordinate escapes and assaults on inmates and guards. Currently having a cell phone in prison is against prison rules, but not illegal. Employees caught bringing in phones ... California prisons seek penalties for cell phones (North County Times) SACRAMENTO ---- California lawmakers and corrections officials are trying to stiffen penalties for inmates who use cell phones in prison and the employees who bring them in. Prisons Press Fight Against Smuggled Cell Phones (CBS 2 Los Angeles) Drugs were once the contraband of choice of prisoners. These days, corrections officials across the country are on the lookout for a more high-tech scourge -- Cell Phones. Cell Phones have been used to help at least two inmates escape from minimum-security conservation camps. Prison investigators fear they also are being used by gang leaders to order assaults on other inmates and employees and ...
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