Prisoners Use Disturbing Cellphone Photos to Blackmail Inmates & Their Families

*Wow. Any family getting a text with a photo like the one above attached has got to be heartbroken to see their relative in this vulnerable position. But where there’s a will, there is a way, and prisoners have found a way to blackmail their peers in this situation and use it to get money from families.

The submissive prisoner in the photo has been identified by officials at Burruss Correctional Training Center in Forsyth, Ga. as 18-year-old Cortez Berry. The photo was taken behind bars by a contraband cell phone.

Berry is seen in a submissive squat in the photo, while two gang members stand over him in a prison bathroom. His left eye and face is swollen as the result of a savage beating. And one of the men holds a noose of some sort around his neck while throwing a hand sign. The other man points at the camera as if his hand is a gun.

All 3 men are shirtless.  READ MORE