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The source of drugs in prisons is primarily the people who work there [1]: > Prison staff are often responsible as well: During the pandemic, even though visit
by jmyeet 4y ago
The source of drugs in prisons is primarily the people who work there [1]:
> Prison staff are often responsible as well: During the pandemic, even though visitation from family and friends was suspended, attorney visits were restricted, and teachers, tutors, and volunteers stayed home, drugs got into many prisons anyway. As The Marshall Project reported, the number of incarcerated people disciplined or charged for drugs actually increased during the pandemic in Texas prisons.
Prisoners highly value books and other reading material. They are generally looked after. Many prisons limit the number of personal items so reading materials are passed to other prisoners (who themselves may not have the funds or outside family to purchase them).
Banning books isn't a safety issue. It's another means of squeezing more profit from the incarcerated.
[1]: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/07/15/inside-the-nation-s-overdose-crisis-in-prisons-and-jails https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/07/15/inside-the-nat...
- HideousKojima 4y agoFWIW when I worked for a local government doing IT and software dev I had to go into the local prison a couple dozen times to set up some equipment. There were zero metal detectors, searches, etc. for me when I entered, and I could have easily smuggled in just about anything. In fact I had a credit card shaped knife that I made sure to remove from my wallet everytime I went in, but there would have been nothing to stop me otherwise.
- notch656c 4y agoThere was likely no searches because the prison officials tacitly are involved with the smuggling and need to not search anyone to make it look like a uniform policy rather than an exceptional policy for the smugglers. Had you actually brought materials to the prisoners, whoever was doing the actual smuggling would have found out through the grapevine and you would have been promptly arrested. My humble conjecture.