Background and Overview Prison security
11.The Act implements a recommendation from the strategy document Extending Our Reach: A strategy for a new approach to tackling serious organised crime, which was published in July 2009. It amends the Prison Act 1952 to create a new criminal offence of possessing an unauthorised mobile phone, or component part, in prison. This offence also includes unauthorised possession of devices (other than mobile telephones) which are capable of accessing the internet or are otherwise capable of sending or receiving data.