Telcos to work with the Government to tackle cell phones in prisons

6 July 2005

The Minister of Corrections, Hon. Paul Swain, today issued a media release announcing that Telecom and Vodafone have agreed to work with the Government to stamp out cell phone use in New Zealand prisons.  Read the full media release.

Mr Swain recently attended the Australasian Corrections Ministers' conference where a report looking at the technology for stopping cell phone use in prisons in Canada, Singapore, France, Israel and Britain was presented.

A PDF version of the report is available here for download:

• Joint State International Study on the illicit use of mobile phones by prisoners and the management of persons detained in custody for terrorist activities (540KB PDF)