Washington (CNN) -- Hoping to stop federal inmates from directing crimes from behind bars, President Barack Obama signed into law Tuesday a prohibition on cell phone use by prisoners.
The law prohibits the use or possession of mobile phones and wireless devices, and calls for up to a year in prison for anyone found guilty of trying to smuggle one to an inmate.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons confiscated more than 2,600 cell phones from minimum security facilities and nearly 600 from secure federal institutions last year
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FINALLY - He did something right... Wow, another Nobel Peace Prize
ReplyDeleteNow, if we can just get the tv's,gyms, and all the other ammenities prisioners get taken away as well. Its jail not the Ritz Carlton!!!
ReplyDeleteive heard they made an exception for muslim inmates. *sarcasm*
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ReplyDeleteAt least he did SOMETHING positive this time to get a Novel Peace prize..... he didn't do anything the last time lol
Why is he mandating these changes? Was Congress consulted? The American People?? Another way to shoe he thinks he is smater than everyone.
ReplyDeleteWait til November....
What Allen has going for him in Somerset (I am a county resident), is the fact that not many people know of his Wicomico "dealing", also they are fed up with Bobby Jones. I am not a big fan of either, Webster is a weisel and Bobby is a lazy drunk! Somerset really does not have any good choices this year..
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