Drugs in prisons?

Jack B

The drugs are coming in in various ways. You are up against guys who have nothing to do but think all day. Some of your own are probably allied with them. Sounds like a great movie.

Put a drug sniffing dog at the entrance where the guards come in to work.
Rotate the guards watching the dog.

Get inside help. Give incentives to those inside. They will talk if you can guarantee anonymity. Almost everyone inside has some idea of who are involved in "something."

Watch the people who are being busted doing the drugs- and who runs the "tank" they live in-

Watch out for misinformation from anywhere; a trustee, a guard, a captain, a teacher, anyone. Someone close to you doesn't want you to know what is going on.

I would also suggest heavier use of surprise dog walk throughs - everywhere! You may be surprised at what pops up.

Leave off old perceptions and hang on to those new things that are working.

Peace and may God's hand be upon you and His Grace, Mercy and Blessings shower on you.

Ralley

Stop the correctional workers from bringing them in!

jxt299

How do they get in? The prisoners all get seriously searched, the visitors don't get any physical contact, packages and gifts are searched...I kinda think the guards must be on the take. A thing that would help would be to eliminate all victimless crimes, there are too many people locked up for non violent offenses, 2.5 million people locked up, the equivalent to the population of Chicago behind bars at $40,000 per inmate per year. Actually it might be easier to manage a huge prison with thousands of people locked up if they are drugged, it might actually be a good thing.

ndtaya

Good luck with that! They'll always find a way - the spice must flow...

Hey, while we're at it, let's try to get athletes to stop doping!

triniqueen40

Correctional workers are not the only civillians that come into the prison on a daily basis. Start there.
In some prisons the inmates have access to all areas of the prison. Drugs can be left at pre-determined points for pickup by a prisoner. Email me and I can give you some more ideas.

loretta

have a hidden video camera in every open entrance of the prison and have it zoom in on every nook, crack and cranny.

my2cents

I think they should just let them have drugs, let em' croak and save $$$$$$$$ in tax dollars

UppityBroad68

Make everyone who comes in contact with the inmates subject to the same searches as the visitors... That means staff, vendors, legal personnel, even the Warden, no exceptions... all should be searched on their way into the facility. It wouldn't really be that time consuming, and I believe it would be very effective... but the Union would never accept it.
Every prison should have a couple of well trained drug dogs available to check all incoming packages from vendors... I've heard that the merchandise coming into the commissary is one of the least secure aspects of the daily routine of a prison, along with the cafeteria goods.
A lot of time could be saved on shakedowns that are prompted by a CI report of drugs in a cell if, instead of a full search, the inmates accused were removed without warning to a strip cell and their cell searched by a dog... any alert on the dog's part would indicate a need for a full search.
If you read through some of my answers, you'll find that I am ALL about prison reform and inmate's rights, but I'm in full agreement that drugs need to be kept out of our correctional facilities. They create more violence and danger for staff and inmates, they allow a continuation of the addictions that got many of these guys to the place they're at now and they virtually eliminate any chance of rehabilitation.

*****

I use to work at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Correctional personnel cannot be everywhere, so it is impossible to stop all smuggling of contraband into the prison. All we can hope for is to stop as much of it as we can.

One Big Daddy

You cant, your co-workers have been paid off. Try and find a new job

Privratnik

Arrest the correctional workers who are dealing.

linlyons

A) there must be no contact between prisoners and visitors.

B) you need drug detecting equipment to scan anyone /everyone, coming into the prison.

that'll get most of it.
however, where there's money, there'll be drugs. you won't get all of it.

Vicky

I would check everyone who comes to visit the inimates.. Because I believe that is how the drugs are getting into the jails.

Indiana Jonas

Why would you want them to stop having drugs in there? HOW ELSE WILL THEY LIVE!!!!!??? o.o

ME!

Well the procedure now is good. Only when outside visitor come to see an inmate, they should not allow huge groups at once. They should have small groups of inmates spending time with their love ones and one correctional officer, per inmate during visitation keep an eye on them.

kerilyn (RIP Nolte)

Let them have visitors only with glass between them, and frisk all the guards...especially the guards

smartypants909

In a minimum or medium security prison where inmates or trustys do the cooking, they are making it right there in the kitchen.

maxima

Use dogs to search all visitors/employees before they enter the facility

buttercup

If I were advising them how to stop drug smuggling in prisons,
it would be very very simple. The jailbird and the visitor would
never have any physical contact. They would sit on opposite
sides of an unbreakable glass and speak to each other via
microphones. No contact........No drugs to prisoners.
End of problem.

Count to Zero

Anal search.

pandabunny

I heard that the way drugs were being smuggled is by guards or visiting relatives/friends or by mail.

Therefore, guards would have to be guarded by other guards (like a buddy-system), relatives could not have any conjugal visits - no physical contact with prisoners, and mail/packages would have to be opened and looked inside before handed to the prisoner.

vicky l

no visitors and no post and search the staff properly

Spaghetti MY

execute everyone and shut the prisons down, That's the only way I can think of right now.

Hope this helps

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