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I live in Arkansas, and both know people have been in the state prison system and have family that work in it. This didn't come out of nowhere. Book and letter
by Ancapistani 9mo ago
I live in Arkansas, and both know people have been in the state prison system and have family that work in it.
This didn't come out of nowhere. Book and letters have both been used in the past to smuggle in drugs - including soaking the paper in liquids and then extracting them or using them directly inside.
- OutOfHere 9mo agoMaybe the specific solvent liquids are more of the problem there than the books.
- jdkee 9mo agoLikely water.
- themafia 9mo agoIf you can process drugs and get high in prison then you're not actually in any form of custody. You're just left to your own devices in an unsupervised locked box. It's not hard to figure out why our recidivism rate is so embarrassing. Anyways, I'm sure this will /completely/ prevent drugs from getting in, so I guess that justifies the destruction of prisoner rights?
- cindyllm 9mo ago[dead]
- throwaway81523 9mo agoIt sounds like this prevents books from being sent to prisoners no matter who the sender is. In California you are not allowed to mail books directly to prisoners, but you can order books from Amazon (or a few other large sellers) for shipment to the prisoner. They figure a shipment directly from those places should be contraband free. Hopefully they have some kind of anti-spoofing scheme. I think the CA policy is pretty common, so Arkansas must be going further.
- onetokeoverthe 9mo ago[dead]