• The use of phones in prison has been linked to cases involving drug dealing and smuggling guns into the UK.
• “We are determined to do all we can to prevent prisoners having access to mobile phones,” Justice Secretary Liz Truss said.
• Throwing of banned items in to prisons more than doubles
• Once a mobile number is identified, the prison can apply to the courts for a Telecommunications Restriction Order (TRO) through which mobile networks can be instructed to blacklist the phone remotely — making it unusable.
• Under the measures, introduced in the Serious Crime Act 2015, prison governors will no longer have to physically find phones or deploy blocking technology to stop them being used.

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