Prisons to Jam Contraband Cellphones

MAKING AMERICA SAFE AGAIN 🇺🇸 Today, I announced the FCC will vote to authorize prisons to jam contraband cellphones for the first time ever. Almost 500,000 inmates now have access to them and 25,000 phones are seized in jails annually. Inmates are using them at exceptionally high rates to order hits, run drug operations, enable CSAM abuse of young kids, and many more awful acts. We are now giving state and local prisons & jails a tool they’ve been denied for years. Grateful for the chance to get this across the finish line.

— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) October 28, 2026

… high rates to order hits, run drug operations, enable CSAM abuse of young kids, and many more awful acts.

We are now giving state and local prisons & jails a tool they’ve been denied for years.

Grateful for the chance to get this across the finish line.