Jam mobile phone signals in prisons, says inspector
Technology should be used to jam mobile phone signals in prisons, an inspector at Britain's largest jail has said.
David Jamieson, chairman of Wandsworth prison's Independent Monitoring Board, says illegal phones fuel prison drug trading, bullying and gang problems.
Behind bars, phones can cost £400 each. He said the trade had been worth £9m in 2008, when 7,000 phones were seized.
The Prison Service says signal blocking is technically challenging and not quick, simple or cheap to implement.
Mr Jamieson told the BBC's Inside Out London programme he believed three times as many mobile phones were in circulation within prisons as had been seized.
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