Extract from third reading (Commons) of the Prisons (Interference with Wireless Telegraphy) Bill (private bill) - July 6
Sunday, 8 July 2018 10:25
The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Rory Stewart):...The
2012 legislation tried to deal with the gap between what can be
authorised to a Crown servant—in this case the governor of a public
prison—and what instructions can be given to the director of a
private prison, such as one run by G4S, Serco or Sodexo. That
was resolved in 2012, but what happened then—this point has been
raised already—is that we are simply walking around a prison with
various devices. What devices...Request free trial
The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Rory Stewart):...The
2012 legislation tried to deal with the gap between what can be
authorised to a Crown servant—in this case the governor of a public
prison—and what instructions can be given to the director of a
private prison, such as one run by G4S, Serco or Sodexo. That was resolved in 2012,
but what happened then—this point has been raised already—is that
we are simply walking around a prison with various devices. What
devices can be used in a prison? Before this legislation, we could
wander around a prison with a metal detector, which can pick up the
metal in a mobile telephone. We could wander around with a wand
that picks up the microwave signals from a phone, but the phone
might be very small and hidden almost anywhere in a messy cell.
What we were unable to do, except with the co-operation of the
mobile telephone company, is operate from the mast...
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