OF JAILS AND JAMMERS

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Punjab has 26 jails, including 10 Central jails.

Idea to install 4-G jammers was mooted by Capt Amarinder government after a series of reports on open use of mobile phones inside jails.

Newly appointed adviser to prisons department, Telangana ex-police chief VK Singh, termed it a “failed idea”.

PHONE RECOVERIES

Amritsar, Ludhiana and Ferozepur jails are considered most notorious as far as use of mobile phones is concerned. Inmates use various methods to get access to mobile phones inside prisons, including bribing the officials and concealing instruments in their rectum on way back from court hearings.