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Mexican Cartels Tap U.S. Prisons to Expand Operations and Draft New Talent

“I'm telling you, it’s like a job fair in here,” a prisoner tells Gorilla Convict Seth Ferranti.

While the cartels are waging vicious, brutal, and often bloody battles in Mexico with one another and with the Army and law enforcement there, they are simultaneously recruiting American prisoners to increase their manpower, access to arms, distribution points, and trafficking abilities in a multifaceted strategy to keep drugs going north and money and weapons back south.

"There's an awful lot of Mexicans locked up in the feds," a prisoner tells The Daily Beast, “doing 20- to 30-year bids, effectively out of action for the cartels. So what they're doing is recruiting other prisoners, who are about to get out, to sell drugs for their people."

"The conditions are perfect right now for the cartels," the prisoner says. "They have a pool of captivated, untapped talent and ready-made resources, which they can access in our prisons. I'm telling you, it’s like a job fair in here. I'm at the end of a 10-year bid in the feds, and I got a couple of different Mexican dudes making me offers. They want to send me 20 keys right when I get out, on the front. It’s crazy. I didn't want to go back to selling drugs, but 20 keys? I could come up quick and be set for life, you know what I mean?"