So much for clanking out coded messages on the prison bars. Some Virginia inmates apparently have found a more modern means of communication. A surprise search this month at the medium-security ...

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr (at lectern) with Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (far right), U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (second from left) and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Credit: Brian Chilson Cotton has ...

U.S. Senator Tom Cotton speaks at a press conference on contraband cellphone jamming in Little Rock on Sept. 5, 2025, flanked by Attorney General Tim Griffin (right) and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — State officials in South Carolina have long pushed for the ability to jam contraband cell phones inside prisons. A new federal proposal could soon make that possible. State leaders ...

The FCC this week passed a framework to establish cell phone jamming in federal prisons, something that had been pushed for ...

The Georgia attorney general's office says in 2024, the State Department of Corrections (GDC) seized more 15,500 cell phones ...

To hear prosecutors and tough-on-crime-politicians tell it, the reason we in South Carolina have more than our share of violent crimes, and non-violent crimes, for that matter, is that we don’t lock ...

Service members were led to believe that they were sent child pornography. Fifteen people have been charged in a "sextortion" ring run by prisoners using contraband cellphones and targeting U.S.