SACARAMENTO, CA (CBS) - A California inmate is doing 22 years for voluntary manslaughter, but is keeping in touch with family the most public way possible - Facebook.
Inmate Frederick Garner goes by Brotherbo Garner on the social networking site Facebook.
For weeks Garner has been posting messages and pictures possibly from inside his cell.
CBS called the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to tip them about this particular inmate. Terry Thornton said after the call they launched an investigation.
They've found printouts of Garner's postings inside prison, and believe someone mailed him what he wrote online.
"On the surface it looks pretty harmless," Thornton said. "But knowing that so many inmates are involved in gangs it's possible these could be coded messages."
Behind bars, cell phones are becoming the most sought after contraband. They are normally smuggled in by cereal boxes, shoes or even a deck of cards.
In 2010, the department has confiscated more than 9,000 cell phones using dogs to sniff them out.
"This is very serious and people's lives can be at stake, public safety is at stake," Thornton said.
Inmates have been known to use the phones to commit more crimes like drug trafficking or even murder. The inmates usually work to keep it very secret.
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