Need to install mobile jammers to make phones useless in prisons: Upuldeniya

The Prisons Department is expected to introduce a new mobile jamming system to prevent inmates from using mobile phones while in prisons, Prisons Commissioner General Thushara Upuldeniya said.

He said the main target of introducing the jamming system is to make mobile phones a useless electronic device in the prison.

"The personnel who smuggle in mobile phones into the prison resort to various methods. However, we managed to seize those mobile phones but now the smugglers use more advanced methods to smuggle in mobile phones," the Prisons Commissioner General said.

“We can only beat this issue by using advanced technology,” he said.

“Therefore, we discussed this issue with the President, the Subject Minister and Prison officials to put an end to this threat with the use of latest technology. Installing high-tech equipment in prisons is much needed to prevent smuggling in mobile phones,” Mr. Upuldeniya added. (Chaturanga Samarawickrama)