Imprisoned mafia bosses are calling each other to conduct drug deals and even ordering “punitive expeditions” against their rivals because phones are so widespread in Italian jails.
In an “alarming” situation, there are on average 100 prisoner mobile phones in each Italy’s prisons, said Nicola Gratteri, a high-profile magistrate who is Italy’s most-prominent prosecutor and has been under police protection for years.
Mafia dons use the phones, either smuggled into prisons or covertly delivered by drone, to run their illegal activities from behind bars.
“Mafiosi are able to direct the committing of crimes and order punitive expeditions,” said Mr Gratteri, who spent decades fighting the ‘Ndrangheta mafia in Calabria, in the…
