CORRECTIVE Services NSW is cracking down on the smuggling in and use of mobile phones in Goulburn Jail after a weekend search uncovered four devices.
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“On Sunday, October 4 officers locked down the minimum security wing to conduct targeted contraband searches based on intelligence,” a Corrective Services spokesperson told the Post.
“As a result three mobile phones were found in the minimum security kitchen and shower block.
A fourth phone was located outside the maximum security visits area.
“Corrective Services NSW will continue to conduct targeted contraband searches.
Any inmate found in possession of a mobile phone will be immediately regressed to maximum security and dismissed from employment as part of newly introduced sanctions.”
Goulburn Jail is also being considered as the next prison in line to have specialist mobile phone jamming technology implemented.
Currently only Lithgow Jail west of the Blue Mountains has the technology in place.
“A second prison (after Lithgow) will introduce the technology for a period of two years, pending consultation and final determination from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA),” the Corrective Services spokesperson said.
“The ACMA needs to grant Corrective Services NSW an exemption to laws prohibiting the use of the technology for the jamming to take place.
At the request of Corrective Services, ACMA is considering Goulburn as the site of the second exemption to start sometime next year.”