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The National Emergency Alert System Test Busted Prisoners With Illegal Cell Phones

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The National Emergency Alert System test turned out to be a huge success for just about everyone … that is unless you were a prisoner with an illegal cell phone behind bars.

Millions of cellphone users across the U.S. got an alert Wednesday from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and FCC to ensure emergency alerts reach the public at a national level. Phones received both a test message and made a loud alert noise.

However, the testing system made prisoners hiding phones an easy target for prison guards.

A New York State Prison official tells us they confiscated two phones at Sing Sing Correctional Facility during the test. Additionally, a source at FCI Coleman Low in Florida says they too confiscated two phones during the emergency test. more

8 Comments on The National Emergency Alert System Test Busted Prisoners With Illegal Cell Phones

  1. Not difficult to triangulate radio signals. You don’t really need to hit every cellphone in the US to find ‘illegal’ ones in prison.

    Understood the goal of the test wasn’t to locate cell-phone laden prisoners, but you think prisons would have the gear to locate any illegal radio signal.

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  2. Give me an effing break! How many of these illegal phones were trafficked into the prison by the prison guards?
    Don’t try to gaslight me that the phones just magically appear. There are guards who look the other way, or worse, actively procure the phones for the prisoners.

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