When the government puts a criminal behind bars, Americans feel relief: That’s one more lawbreaker who can no longer terrorize our communities.

But too often that is not the case, thanks in large part to contraband phones.

Over the past several years, thousands of cell phones have poured into state and local prisons — smuggled in by bad actors , dropped inside by drones, or thrown over fences into prison yards, among other methods.

The worst of the worst use these contraband cell phones to continue their criminal enterprises while incarcerated.

The stories of inmates using contraband phones to order hits, run drug operations and orchestrate a range of violent crimes from behind bars are both alarming and shocking.

Last year, two 13-year-old boys in Atlanta were gunned down while a

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