Workshop Wrestles with Stopping Use of Cellphones in Prisons

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The threat from cellphones smuggled into prisons is "deadly serious" and finding a technical nsolution is a high FCC priority, Public Safety Bureau Chief Jamie Barnett said at a ncommission workshop. Wireless carriers, led by CTIA, used the forum to make the case that ncellphone jamming in the answer. But mostly, those who testified described a problem that nmay elude easy solution. "Deaths have occurred because of inmates contracting for hits nagainst witnesses, police officers and others," Barnett said. "They continue to run criminal nenterprises." So Chairman Julius Genachowski has made "finding technological solutions a ntop priority -– solutions that are available immediately," he said.