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Smuggled cell phones a common problem in Ga. prisons

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Later this year, the Georgia Department of Corrections hopes to roll out a jamming system to stop the demand for smuggled cell phones in state prisons.

It's an issue with which the FOX 5 I-Team is all too familiar, a problem authorities admit has gotten dangerously out of control.
    
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