Bureau of Prisons: Improved Evaluations and Increased Coordination Could Improve Cell Phone Detection
Publication year:
2011
| Cataloged on:
Sep. 27, 2011
ANNOTATION: Issues surrounding the detection and use of contraband cell phones in federal prisons are examined. Sections of this report include: background; Bureau of Prisons (BOP) telephone rates typically are less than other correctional systems’ rates and fund inmate wages and recreation so lowering rates would decrease costs for inmate calls but could reduce revenue; BOP and selected states confiscated thousands of cell phones in 2010 and believe that rising inmate cell phone usage threatens institutional safety and expands criminal activity; BOP and selected states have implemented cell phone search and detection technologies, but BOP could evaluate technologies better and increase coordination; conclusions; recommendations for Executive Action; agency comments; National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Observations on Technologies to Combat Contraband Cell Phones; and BOP’s Policy Memorandums and Program Statements Governing Entrance-Screening Protocols at Prison Institutions.
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