By Zohreen Adamjee
FOX 40
SOLANO COUNTY — Just as humans have built ways to keep prisoners away from the world, prisoners have devised ways to keep their secrets away from us.
At prisons across the state, inmates spend up to $500 for a cell phone and up to $2000 for smartphones, according to Paul Medina, Assistant Gang Investigator at CSP Solano. He says many times, they’re used for illegal activity.
“Hits are called from in here,” he said. Medina added that much of the gang leadership is in prisons. “Those assaults are – can be – orchestrated from here with those cell phones.”
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