drugs in prisons?

Question

pretend you are a correctional worker how can we stop drugs from being smuggled in prison?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

A a pretend correctional worker there are so many problems to be addressed.

1) Gang violence
2) Drug abuse
3) Unsafe Sex (whether you like it or not)
4) Violence against me and my team.

I think first you need to lower the prison numbers. Junkies (strictly junkies, not gun toting dealers) should not be in jail at all but in drug rehab (that would probably cut prison pop. by at least 1/4) and then when there are less inmates, it may be easier to control the amount of drugs getting in.

Total elimination....NEVER!!!!!!

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

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.

Answer 9

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.

Answer 10

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.