参议员科顿在小石城圆桌会推动监狱手机屏蔽立法：FCC将于11月19日表决最终规则
阿肯色州普拉斯基县小石城市消息：联邦参议员汤姆·科顿10月28日在小石城与联邦通信委员会（FCC）主席布伦丹·卡尔、阿肯色州总检察长蒂姆·格里芬举行圆桌会和记者会，讨论监狱内违禁手机的危害，并推动国会通过相关立法。
科顿多年来倡导《手机信号屏蔽改革法》，该法案将允许州和地方监狱使用手机信号屏蔽系统，阻止在押人员使用违禁手机。卡尔在会上宣布，FCC 将于11月19日的公开会议上就最终规则投票——据 FCC 10月28日发布的公告，这将是首次允许州和联邦监狱及看守所屏蔽违禁手机；按计划，相关命令将允许、但不强制州和地方惩教机构屏蔽违禁手机，规则将在委员投票后正式确立。
科顿说，违禁手机威胁从守法公民到执法人员的所有人，他赞扬卡尔迈出了屏蔽这些危险设备的重要一步，并敦促国会通过他的法案，把这一努力写入法律。FCC 方面指出，全国监狱中已流入数千部违禁手机，在押人员用它们下令行凶、协调暴力帮派活动、虐待儿童并协助犯罪企业。
来源：GSM·美国
Sen. Cotton Pushes Prison Cellphone Jamming at Little Rock Roundtable; FCC to Vote on Final Rule Nov. 19
LITTLE ROCK, Pulaski County, Arkansas — U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton held a roundtable and press conference in Little Rock on Oct. 28 with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr and Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin to discuss the dangers of contraband cellphones in prisons and to push for congressional action.
Cotton has long championed the Cellphone Jamming Reform Act, which would allow state and local prisons to use cellphone jamming systems to block inmates' use of contraband phones. Carr announced at the event that the FCC will vote on a final rule at its Nov. 19 open meeting — which, according to the FCC's Oct. 28 announcement, would for the first time allow state and federal prisons and jails to jam contraband cellphones. Under the plan, the order would permit, but not require, state and local correctional facilities to jam the phones, with the rules taking formal effect after the commissioners' vote.
Cotton said contraband cellphones threaten everyone from law-abiding citizens to law enforcement officers, praised Carr for taking an important step toward blocking the dangerous devices, and urged Congress to pass his bill to write the effort into law. The FCC says thousands of contraband phones have flowed into prisons nationwide, and that inmates use them to order murders, coordinate violent gang activity, abuse children and aid criminal enterprises.
Source: GSM News
来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
图片来源：图：联邦参议员汤姆·科顿官方肖像（公共领域，Wikimedia Commons）。Official portrait of U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons).
