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At the start of the article there is this statement: "There were at least nine drug-related deaths" I can't wrap my head around this, I know that smuggling dr

At the start of the article there is this statement: "There were at least nine drug-related deaths" I can't wrap my head around this, I know that smuggling drugs into jails is relatively common practice in the US but it seems like we have just normalised this when we shouldn't have. A jail is a facility that the government has complete control over and even more relaxed restrictions on what they can subject people to, so how does this happen? Aren't their CCTV cameras everywhere? Microphones? Surely these incidents should be so well tracked and then some sort plan formed to prevent this, or if the guards are corrupt and enabling this maximal punishment. Don't even get me started on allowing prisoners to control the food supply of other prisoners... just seems like such an obviously bad idea.

foxyv 3y ago
Keep in mind that the correctional officers are often underpaid, overworked, and constantly traumatized. Some of the stories that they tell are enough to curdle your blood. It's not surprising that the less scrupulous ones are happy to make extra money importing illicit substances. There is also the fact that most of the prison is run by prisoners themselves. This provides tons of opportunity for bringing in contraband.
yowzadave 3y ago
> we have just normalised this when we shouldn't have Yes, also the fact that prison rape is just assumed to be a thing that happens, and people seem to be OK with it--see thousands of comments when anybody is sent to prison along the lines of, "have fun getting raped in prison!"