How do drugs get into prisons?

Question

I have recently taken a job to work at a maximum security state prison as a food service supervisor. Of course, all the other stuff has been very helpful in giving me advice about certain things, and I am grateful to them all, yet every once in awhile I hear about a problem, like how an inmate had a cell phone, or they are doing drug testing, or what not. Everyday that I go into work I empty my pockets, walk through a metal detector, and am patted down, then allowed to proceed. So is everyone else. So I am really curious as to how it is that illegal drugs are a problem in a maximum security prison. Where is it that they are coming from and how are the inmates getting access to them? And how are the other inmates getting money to pay for them?

Answer 1

Drugs come into prisons on the bodies of visitorsand through unethical guards and prison employees. Inmates get money the same way and trade things for drugs -things like cigarettes and candy bars, chips etc.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Most drugs enter prisons by low down correctional staff in general , I had 6 years working Maximum Security , I have witnessed ,councilors , nurses , and yes even preachers , ((or chaplain)) , social workers , and yes even stuffed in the rectum of little children coming to visit the prisoner . There are some staff that do not get properly searched... ((and our state does not allow conjugal visits that was stopped in 1989 , and Inmates do work inside the prison if they are medium security , however there is no pay , that was stopped in 94 , maximum security inmates are locked down 23 out of 24 hours a day .. You are going to see things you never thought you would see ..I wish you well , and be careful ....

Answer 4

Mostly up the rear of conjugal visitors ie.. girlfriends, boyfriends, gang members. When there is a will there is a way. Also, most inmates have jobs within the prison that they are paid a small wage for and of course other money comes in up the butt of before mentioned enablers.

Answer 5

guards find a way to bring them in, at visitation, other vistitors.

At one prison we have them putting them inside a tenniss ball and throwing it over the fence at night, the inmate doing yard that next moring, gets it, takes drugs out, throws ball away.

A guard lets say likes to go to a bar, an inmate gets his girlfriend to meet him and do the wild thing, now they black mail the officer to bring drugs in.

guards don't search and pat down guards that well ( heck most don't pat down inmates really good.

Normally never good in the crouch area, not in boots for the guards and so on.

Answer 6

This reality only shows that turning the whole world into one big prison would still not win the drug war.

Are you willing to be cavity searched daily in your own home so that you can feel safe from some things that people choose to put into their own mouths?

Answer 7

Why do you think they call it "crack"? And often, the inmates' families on the outside are paying the "mules" to bring it inside.

Answer 8

Drugs get into prisons via rectums. That's why they're not cheap in there.

Answer 9

From the corrections officers

Answer 10

Sometimes its shoved up where the sun doesnt shine... Letters can be turned into meth somehow, I belive its dippinmg it into chemicals... LSD under stamps... corrupt guards with greased palms