COLUMBIA — For nearly a decade , South Carolina prison officials have led a national lobbying push to allow cellphone-jamming technology.

After years of trying, that dream could come to fruition in just a matter of weeks.

At a press conference in Little Rock, Ark., with Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton last week, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr announced the three-member panel would be voting later this month on a proposal that, for the first time, would allow state prisons to jam contraband cellphones within their walls.

“For years, thousands upon thousands of contraband cellphones have been pouring into prisons, and some of the worst possible offenders have been using them to order hits, coordinate violent gang activity, and aid criminal enterprises,” Carr sai

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