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NIJ: Solutions to cell phone contraband mostly "expensive and labor intenstive"

Via the Crime Report:A new paper by the National Institute of Justice examines the challenges that the new generation of cell phones poses to the corrections community. Now smaller than ever and with both audio, video and data capacity, the NIJ reports that cell phones have been used to conduct illegal activity. In the first half of 2008, California corrections officials confiscated 1,331 cell phones from inmates, but technology that senses and blocks phone signals is expensive, and can interfere with staff cell phones.To read the whole report click here.The short, two-page report includes a tidbit about cell-phone sniffing dogs, which have received significant press recently, declaring such efforts have "not been rigorously evaluated. Dog training can cost tens of thousands of dollars...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 28, 2009 (boomark / email).