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Ex-prison guard, shot six times, hails FCC push to allow cellphone jamming behind bars

Ex-prison guard, shot six times, hails FCC push to allow cellphone jamming behind bars
nation9/30/2025

The FCC is slated to vote Tuesday on whether to consider a proposal to lift the restriction on cell jamming technology inside state prisons.

Robert Johnson was a corrections officer whose job it was to prevent inmates from smuggling cellphones, drugs and other contraband into one of South Carolina’s most violent prisons. But then came the morning of March 5, 2010. Johnson was inside his h... [6349 chars]