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• Officials: SC inmates ran $560K online dating extortion scheme

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  Inmates used illegal cellphones to pose as underage women on dating sites, authorities said Wednesday

• Contraband control training: Search tactics that work (eBook)

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  COs can’t overlook the importance of basic search techniques

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• Feds accuse ex-CIA employee of continuing leaks from prison

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  Prosecutors wrote that the inmate has been using smuggled cellphones to communicate outside the federal lockup

• 4 arrested in attempted smuggling at Okla. jail

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  Officials say women tried to smuggle drugs, cellphones through a hole in cell wall

• Judges order carriers to 'brick' inmate cellphones

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  Judges in California and SC ordered cellphone carriers to disable nearly 200 contraband cellphones used by inmates

• Federal officials: Prison cellphone jamming test a success

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  Officials say they were able to shut down phone signals inside a prison cell, while phones about 20 feet away worked normally

• SC prison officials may have answer to stopping illegal cellphone use

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  Officials have said cellphones illegally smuggled into Lee Correctional Institution played a role in the deadly riot

• South Carolina's prisons among the deadliest in the US

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  Contraband cellphones and staffing shortages are often blamed for many of the department's woes

• Feds: Inmate posted video online using contraband phone

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  Prosecutors say the inmate bragged about having the phone and called himself "a motivational speaker for gangsters"

• Milkman accused of sneaking drugs, phones into prison

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  A longtime milkman smuggled marijuana, tobacco and cellphones into an Ohio prison hidden inside milk cartons, a prosecutor said

• SC State Guard enlisted to fight prison cellphones

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  Gov. Henry McMaster signed an executive order allowing South Carolina State Guardsmen to help patrol the perimeters of the state's prisons

• Corrections, Congress 'encouraged' by prison phones meeting

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  Officials say they're hopeful the meeting will lead to a solution that combats security issues posed by cellphones in the hands of inmates

• Prison chiefs head to Washington to talk cellphones with FCC

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  Corrections officials are heading to Washington to discuss what they call their biggest security threat: cellphones in the hands of inmates

• Unable to jam signals, SC prison pays cops to fight cellphones

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  Director Bryan Stirling said he's enlisting the help of law enforcement to combat the issue outside prison fences

• Wireless industry: Court orders needed to block prison calls

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  As officials combat contraband cellphones in the hands of inmates, a wireless trade group says court orders should be required to shut down the devices

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