Prisoners Busted with Cell Phones During National Emergency Alert System Test

The National Emergency Alert System check turned out to be an enormous success for nearly everybody … that’s until you have been a prisoner with an unlawful mobile phone behind bars.

Millions of cellphone customers throughout the U.S. obtained an alert Wednesday from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and FCC to make sure emergency alerts attain the general public at a nationwide degree. Phones acquired each a check message and made a loud alert noise.

However, the testing system made prisoners hiding telephones a simple goal for jail guards.

A New York State Prison official tells us they confiscated two telephones at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in the course of the check. Additionally, a supply at FCI Coleman Low in Florida says they too confiscated two telephones in the course of the emergency check.

It’s unclear what number of different prisons confronted related circumstances — we referred to as round in Arizona, California, Illinois and others — however you gotta think about it was an issue nationwide.

A supply in Nevada tells us most of their prisoners have been already conscious the alert was gonna occur, probably turning their telephones off, in order that they did not confiscate any gadgets.

When reached for remark, the BOP instructed us, “The Federal Bureau of Prisons does not elaborate on specific internal security procedures for safety and security reasons.”

Unsurprisingly, we’re instructed telephones behind bars have turn into a rising downside, and officers have applied new ways in making an attempt to find them — together with phone-sniffing canines referred to as “E-Dogs.”