The federal government has formally asked the Australian Communications Authority to investigate the feasibility of allowing state governments to jam mobile phone signals in jails.
After years of friction, the federal government is finally seeing eye-to-eye with the states, and has given its support for jamming mobile phones in prisons.
NSW Justice Minister John Hatzistergos has demanded the federal government be quicker to embrace phone jamming in jails
The Australian Communications Authority has ruled out legalising mobile phone jammers, or making an exception for Australian prisons.
The New Zealand government has signed an agreement with the country's biggest phone companies to introduce mobile blocking technology into Kiwi prisons.
The federal government has formally asked the Australian Communications Authority to investigate the feasibility of allowing state governments to jam mobile phone signals in jails.
The Australian Communications Authority has ruled out legalising mobile phone jammers, or making an exception for Australian prisons.
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