Contraband Prevention

To keep drugs, weapons and other disruptive items out of your facility, first identify gaps in your screening process, then adopt a variety of policies and tools to plug the holes

Consider these tools and techniques to help maintain the constant vigilance necessary to keep contraband drugs, phones and weapons out of your facility

Since adding a body scanner to its intake process, the facility has seen a significant drop in drugs found during random shakedowns

Looking for a better way to catch contraband, this Oregon sheriff led the charge to make X-ray screening a common practice in the state’s county jails

Keeping our facilities safe requires us to think ahead of the inmate population

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If we can predict that some staff may fall victim to manipulation or corruption, then we can put measures in place to help to prevent it

Inmates and their associates will try just about anything when it comes to smuggling drugs and other contraband behind bars

Apply tools like X-ray scanners and trace detection in a layered approach to prevent illicit items from slipping through the cracks

Fentanyl isn’t the only hot contraband drug – here are some key facts about two of the substances most often smuggled through the mail

COs can’t overlook the importance of basic search techniques

Stop smuggling from undermining the security of your inmates and staff with a body scanner

"The practices they've implemented are ... prohibiting a lot of lawyers from being able to use the mail to communicate with their clients," an ACLU official said