And so unlike most prisons, if not every prison on the planet, where prisoners frequently smuggle in cell phones, often with the complicity of prison guards at the Cecot prison, there are no cell phones. The cell phones are jammed. And in fact, What the El Salvador's government has done is imposed massive fines on the cell phone companies if any even a single call goes through from the prison. And so the cell phone companies to avoid and the fines, if I remember correctly, what the Justice Minister said to me, it is $100,000 per violation, so it can rack up very, very quickly. (05:22–05:37)
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Asserts that El Salvador fines cell phone companies for calls from the prison.
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