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Learn more at meta.com. Today, a story about how contraband cell phones are used in prison.

This interview was originally produced for Reset, a tech podcast from Vox.com, hosted by Arielle Zum Ross.

Here's Arielle.

A non-Con spent most of his adult life behind bars.

A total of 16 years since the age of 18. Okay, so just so people don't have to do the math,

how old were you when you were released? 34. When he was 18, Adnan and a friend tried to steal some weed from a drug dealer.

Adnan had been homeless for about a year after his mom moved out of the state and his uncle

kicked him out of his house. A friend of mine asked me to do a snatch and grab of a thousand dollars worth of weed.

None of us had guns, knives, or weapons.

That was the rule just once he hands it to me,

run into a car and he would call up a driver. the robbery went wrong. The getaway driver, the getaway driver stabbed the

drug dealer, killing him. And since Adnan had participated in the crime, he faced the same penalty as if he'd been the murderer.

While he waited in jail for his trial and sentencing, he tried to keep in touch with his siblings.

All I have was my sisters who were 20 and 17 and I was 18.

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