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"A trend has emerged in New Mexico prisons that utilizes an ancient language and has concerned officials.Inmates are using the Aztec language to talk in code, officials said.The State Corrections Department in Santa Fe said prisoners are using the Aztec language to build a new empire inside prison walls.Capt. Joel Lytle said inmates have used the Aztec language, called Nahuatl, to communicate among each other. His staff recently confiscated a letter written in the Aztec language and translated it.Lytle said the letter sparked an investigation because it said a lot, and 30 inmates are currently being investigated for possibly trying to start a gang inside the prison.\"If numbers of the gang members increase, then violence in the penitentiary rises. That also means violence out in the street can rise, as well,\" Lytle said.Officers said prisoners will use the so-called secret code to call shots outside of prison for drugs and guns.\"Honestly, all they are trying to do is get over on us, get over the system,\" Lytle said.Guards said the more they know, the better, because it can help curb violence.\"By us being diligent and trying to learn this language, that's how we combat that type of activity,\" Lytle said.Santa Fe prison officials said inmates will often learn the language before they get to prison and then teach it to other inmates.Inmates are not allowed to receive books unless they are written in English, officials said."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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