Any communication in and out of jail is closely scrutinized — so inmates turn to ingenious codes to convey secret messages by Mark Abadi on Mar 14, 2018, 10:11 AM Advertisement
 - In jail, inmates often rely on secret codes to slip messages past corrections officers.
- Cracking these codes is the specialty of the FBI's cryptanalysis unit.
- We compiled some of the most common jail codes, as well as one the FBI never solved.
In jail, corrections officers are constantly monitoring the mail inmates send and receive. They're looking for any number of things hidden in the envelopes — drugs, money, or contraband items like cell phones, for example. But in many cases, they're looking for something much harder to spot: secret codes. That was the case last year at Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, when staff intercepted a letter from an inmate that looked innocuous, but actually contained an encoded message ordering a hit on a staff member. Cracking codes is the specialty of the FBI's Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit, which details on its website the various types of secret codes, or ciphers, used by inmates. We've compiled some of the most commonly used codes below: SEE ALSO: An Atlanta jail intercepted a letter from an inmate who was using a secret code to orchestrate a murder In this basic code, every fifth word spells out a secret message. 
In a substitution cipher, one letter of the alphabet is substituted for another one.  Using this basic code, HELLO becomes URYYB.
In a telephone keypad cipher, letters of the alphabet are used to represent numbers as they appear on a common telephone keypad.  The letters Q and Z can represent either 0 or 1, which typically don't have any letters on a phone keypad. With this code, the telephone number (202) 324-5678 can be written any of the following ways: B Q B D A G K M R V C Q A F B I J N P X A Q B E C H L O S T
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