Dark web, cut-out Bible: How feds say child-porn network thrived in N.J. prison

Smuggled cellphones and a micro SD card hidden inside a Bible are at the center of what prosecutors describe as a sprawling investigation into child pornography distribution behind the walls of a federal prison in South Jersey.

The U.S. Attorney's Office on Monday announced that William H. Noble, 52, of Lowell, Massachusetts, Charles Wesley Bush, 38, of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Jacob S. Good, 31, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, were the most recent inmates of Federal Correctional Institution-Fort Dix to be charged in a long-term investigation by the FBI that uses informants in the minimum-security prison in Burlington County.

The arrests of the three men — all serving lengthy prison sentences for previous child pornography convictions — bring to eight the number of Fort Dix inmates charged as part of the investigation.

'The dark web'

In filings in U.S. District Court, agents said an informant told them that Anthony C. Jefferies — who is serving a 14-year prison sentence — used a contraband cellphone to download explicit photos and videos of children from sites on the “dark web,” which are not indexed by normal search engines and are only accessible via the Tor Browser.

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