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Totally ridiculous and not justifiable. Just install jammers at the jails. The real reason for a ban must be elsewhere.
by frank_boyd 13y ago
Totally ridiculous and not justifiable. Just install jammers at the jails.
The real reason for a ban must be elsewhere.
- vinceguidry 13y agoProbably wouldn't work. The guards would break them. There's lots of money to be made off the illicit economy surrounding prison.
- bloat 13y agoHow about putting a cell tower right on the jail's roof? Woulds you use your smuggled phone if you knew the signal was going straight through the warden's cell tower?
- simias 13y agoHow do you guarantee that the calls/texts from people around the prison won't go through that tower?
- omh 13y agoThere would be problems with interference from jammers. I've spent time in a hospital overlooking a jail, and I really wouldn't have appreciated my mobile signals being jammed.
- ImprovedSilence 13y agoI posted this elsewhere in the thread, but here's your reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6257452 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6257452