Tennessee AG Skrmetti Leads Multi-State Push for Congress to Pass Legislation to Curb Contraband Cellphones in Prisons

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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti led a bipartisan coalition of 30 attorneys general on Wednesday in calling on congressional lawmakers to pass legislation aimed at disrupting contraband cellphone use in prisons.

Skrmetti and the coalition is calling on Congress to pass the Cellphone Jamming Reform Act, filed as H.R. 2350 and S. 1137, introduced in the U.S. House by Tennessee Representative David Kustoff (R-TN-08) and in the U.S. Senate by Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR).

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