Criminals who run their operations from behind bars using mobile devices could soon be left searching for cell service.
The federal government is asking companies how to stop prisoners from making calls on smuggled cellular and smartphones, tablets and other wireless devices.
Such devices are banned in jails - but evidently, that hasn't stopped prisoners from getting hold of them.
"Though this prohibition is rigidly enforced, upon occasion, mobile devices are recovered by correctional officers from inmates within an institution," says a notice posted Tuesday on a government contracts website.
A Correctional Service spokeswoman said 120 cellphones were confiscated from prisons in ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ in 2010-11, up from 94 in 2009-10 and 51 in 2008-09.
