Contraband: Cell Phones

Extraction and analytics technologies are helping corrections facilities access contraband cellphone data to stop crimes inside and outside prison walls

Consider these tools and techniques to help maintain the constant vigilance necessary to keep contraband drugs, phones and weapons out of your facility

Officers from Goodman Correctional Institution found six garbage bags filled with 56 pounds of tobacco, 37 cellphones and 37 chargers

Since adding a body scanner to its intake process, the facility has seen a significant drop in drugs found during random shakedowns

In this tip, Lexipol co-founder Gordon Graham discusses the challenge of contraband cellphones in correctional facilities. 

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54 people were indicted in a drug trafficking network officials said probably wouldn't exist if inmates did not have cell phones

Looking for a better way to catch contraband, this Oregon sheriff led the charge to make X-ray screening a common practice in the state’s county jails

Bills to allow signal jamming in federal prisons, which is currently banned, are pending in Congress