By C1 Staff
MONTPELIER, Vt. — The state police and Department of Corrections for Vermont has signed an agreement to have regular and on-call K9 drug detection teams in prisons to help stem the flow of drugs to prisoners.
The Bennington Banner reports that a memorandum of understanding committing up to $25,000 for one year of searches throughout the state’s correctional system.
The visits will take place “multiple times a year” in each of the seven state prisons. The DOC find contraband substances about once a week.
In 2012, the most recent figures available, there were 78 incidents in which buprenorphine was recovered, four recoveries of cocaine, 10 of heroin, 35 of marijuana and 30 of various prescription pills.
The agreement is not necessarily indicative of a growing drug problem in jails, according to officials.
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