Contraband Prevention

Get the right tools to help you screen deliveries, food and other items

A former jail administrator recounts lessons learned from a contraband crackdown – in particular, why screening the mail is so important

Multiple screening steps and checkpoints, combined with varied screening technology, will help thwart smuggling into your facility to keep officers and inmates safer

Paper soaked in synthetic cannabinoids presents a serious problem when it comes to attempts to smuggle drugs into correctional facilities

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