Dogs have long been used to sniff out drugs in Florida prisons, but now those powerful noses are being used to search out cell phones.

Cell phones that can be used to coordinate gang activity inside and all kinds of criminal enterprises outside.

Uno is the new kid on the block ... the cell block.

This German shepherd started in May and is specially trained to sniff out cell phones stashed in every nook and cranny of Florida prisons.

"He's only found one cell phone so car, but it was inside a wall socket," said Uno's handler, Inspector Curtis Gore. Uno and Gore will work in prisons in North Florida.

"Anywhere there's ... an inmate goes is where we're going to go," said Inspector Freddie Long.

Long and his dog Razor have been at it in South Florida since January and have sniffed out 19 cell phones.

"It's more or less a chess match, you know. They make a move, we make a counter move. They make another move. It goes back and forth. I mean they come up with some ingenious ideas," Long said.

Since January, 300 cell phones have been confiscated in Florida prisons. One was carved into a Bible, Matthew, Chapter 6. Others have been stuffed into coke cans, and even a toilet paper roll.

Inmates can use the cell phones to coordinate gang activity and escape attempts inside and intimidate witnesses and conduct drug deals outside.

"In many of the instances we have, where we find narcotics or marijuana or whatever it might be, we also find cell phones. So I think they go hand in hand," said Department of Corrections Secretary Walt McNeil.

McNeil was on hand for a demonstration of the new dogs' skills at Wakulla Correctional Institution Wednesday afternoon.

It is now a crime for inmates to have cell phones behind bars and it is punishable by up to five more years in prison.

Razor and Uno are helping to enforce that law by following their noses.

The dogs were trained and donated by the Animal Welfare Foundation in Winter Garden.

The Department of Corrections hopes to find the funds to add more of the specially trained dogs to its inspector corps soon.