此举令倡导者担忧，他们表示，手机帮助囚犯在没有设施电话的费用和隐私顾虑的情况下与亲人保持联系。
The move worries advocates, who say the phones help prisoners keep in touch with loved ones without the cost and privacy concerns that come with facility phones.
联邦通信委员会（FCC）主席布伦丹·卡尔周三表示，全国各地的州立和地方监狱及看守所很快可能被允许屏蔽违禁手机的通信。
State and local prisons and jails across the country may soon be allowed to block communications from contraband cellphones, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said Wednesday.
该机构计划下月就一项命令进行投票，该命令将授权拘留中心干扰FCC称囚犯正在用来“下令谋杀、协调暴力帮派活动和协助犯罪企业”的手机通话和短信。一些执法官员、司法部长和立法者长期以来一直寻求屏蔽这些通信。但监狱司法倡导者担心，干扰违禁手机将阻碍囚犯在没有设施电话的费用和隐私顾虑的情况下与亲人保持联系的一种方式。
The agency plans to vote next month on an order that would authorize detention centers to jam calls and texts from cellphones that the FCC says prisoners are using to “order hits, coordinate violent gang activity and aid criminal enterprises.”Some law enforcement officials, attorneys general and lawmakers have long sought to block these communications. But prison justice advocates worry disrupting contraband phones will hinder a way for prisoners to keep in touch with loved ones without the cost and privacy concerns of calls from facility phones.
干扰，即利用强射频干扰手机与基站之间的通信，并非新技术。但联邦法律禁止州立监狱和看守所使用该技术遏制违禁手机的使用。
Jamming, or the use of strong radio frequencies to interfere with communication between cellphones and cell towers, is not new technology. But state prisons and jails are barred by federal law from using the technology to curtail the use of contraband cellphones.
联邦监狱已获豁免。FCC的这项命令寻求通过重新诠释该机构执行该法规的方式，将这些豁免扩大至州立和地方监狱。
Exceptions have already been carved out for federal prisons. The FCC’s order seeks to expand those exceptions to state and local prisons by reinterpreting how the agency enforces the statute.
卡尔在一份声明中说：“虽然FCC过去授权了一系列解决方案，但它一直止步于允许干扰。今天这种情况结束了。”总部位于纽约的非营利组织Worth Rises致力于瓦解营利性监狱产业，多年来一直倡导反对手机干扰。该组织执行主任比安卡·泰莱克周三表示，FCC的命令未能解决问题的根本原因，即违禁手机首先是如何进入拘留中心的。
“While the FCC has authorized a range of solutions in the past, it has stopped short of allowing jamming,” Carr said in a statement. “That ends today.”Worth Rises, a New York-based nonprofit that seeks to dismantle the for-profit prison industry, has been advocating against cellphone jams for years. Bianca Tylek, the organization’s executive director, said Wednesday that the FCC’s order fails to address the root cause of the issue, which is contraband cellphones getting into detention centers in the first place.
美国量刑委员会发现，在2019年至2023年间因违禁手机判刑的案件中，有39%的手机是由狱警偷偷带入的。
The United States Sentencing Commission has found that in sentencings of prisoners for cellphone contraband between 2019 and 2023, the phone was smuggled in by prison employees 39 percent of the time.
“要治本，别治标，”泰莱克说。“根本原因在于：狱内通讯费用太高，监控过度且对有亲人被监禁的家庭不公，而且你们在狱警问责方面存在问题。”泰莱克还说，大多数违禁手机是用来与狱外亲人通话，而非用于犯罪。
“Get at the root, not the symptom,” Tylek said. “The root causes are that communication inside is too expensive, surveillance is excessive and unfair to families who have a loved one who is incarcerated, and you have an issue around … accountability around your officers.”Plus, Tylek said, most contraband phones are used to talk with loved ones outside the prison or jail, not to commit crimes.
各州具体规定不一，但囚犯通常只能在限定时段使用指定电话，拨打经批准的外部号码。通话需要花钱——每分钟0.09美元到0.17美元不等，视监所规模而定。联邦通信委员会（FCC）去年放宽了费用上限，提高了部分羁押场所的最高允许收费。
Exact rules vary by state, but prisoners are often only allowed to use designated phones for limited periods of time to call approved outside numbers. The calls can cost money — anywhere from $0.09 to $0.17 per minute, depending on the size of the institution. The FCC eased caps last year on how much companies can charge, increasing the maximum allowable price in some detention centers.
监狱和看守所的电话通话可被录音和监控——在某些地方，音频和元数据还会被归档保存。
Prison and jail phone calls can be recorded and monitored — and in some places, audio and metadata archived.
十多年来，州和地方执法官员一直敦促联邦通信委员会允许更多羁押设施干扰手机信号，理由是违禁手机曾被用于非法活动。去年，佐治亚州检察长办公室在一起利用违禁手机协助有组织犯罪的案件中获得了有罪判决。
State and local law enforcement officials have been advocating for the FCC to let more detention facilities jam phones for more than a decade, citing situations in which contraband phones have been used for illegal activity. Last year, the Georgia attorney general’s office won convictions in a case that involved prisoners using contraband cellphones to facilitate organized crime.
一些私人公民和移动运营商曾抵制联邦通信委员会此前试图放宽手机干扰禁令的做法，称这样做可能破坏911急救电话的接入，或干扰监狱附近私人公民的通讯。
Some private citizens and mobile carriers have resisted the FCC’s previous attempts to loosen the ban on phone jamming, saying that doing so could undermine 911 access or the communications of private citizens who are near the prison.
联邦通信委员会周三拒绝就其计划于周四公开的命令中是否会回应这些担忧发表评论。对该文件的表决定于11月19日举行。
The FCC declined to comment Wednesday on whether it plans to address those concerns in its order, which it plans to make public Thursday. A vote on the document is scheduled for Nov. 19.
卡周三在阿肯色州共和党参议员汤姆·科顿和阿肯色州检察长蒂姆·格里芬的陪同下宣布了该命令。科顿于2025年3月提出了一项两院法案，旨在阻止联邦通信委员会禁止监狱使用干扰设备。该法案在两院均未推进。
Carr announced the order Wednesday alongside Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin. Cotton introduced a bicameral bill in March 2025 that would block the FCC from banning prisons from using jamming equipment. The bill has not moved forward in either chamber.
格里芬是去年签署一封信的31名两党检察长之一，信中敦促众议院和参议院的党派领袖推进科顿的立法。
Griffin was part of a bipartisan group of 31 attorneys general who signed a letter last year encouraging party leadership in the House and Senate to act on Cotton’s legislation.
“现行联邦法律严重限制了我们实施有效反制措施的能力，”该团体写道。“虽然我们可以使用一些技术手段，但无法部署最有效的工具——手机干扰系统——这使我们的监狱处于脆弱状态，让我们的社区面临风险。”
“Current federal law severely restricts our ability to implement effective countermeasures,” the group wrote. “While we have access to some technological solutions, we cannot deploy the most effective tool available — cellphone jamming systems—which leaves our prisons vulnerable and our communities at risk.”