The national emergency alert system test exposed prisoners hiding phones behind bars and made them easy targets for guards, as millions received test messages with a loud alert noise Wednesday. Prison officials across the U.S. confiscated illegal cell phones during the emergency test conducted to ensure that the government's alerts reach the public, as reported by . A state prison official reported that two phones were confiscated at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York, and guards at FCI Coleman Law in similarly seized two phones after the blaring noise from the alert.
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