By Andrew Pereira
KITV
HONOLULU, Hawaii — The arrests of two Halawa correctional officers earlier this year for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the prison pointed to a perhaps bigger issue: Whether drug use is rampant among ACO’s?
KITV4 requested the number of prison guards randomly drug tested by the Department of Public Safety at Halawa as well as the Oahu Community Correctional Center in 2012 and 2013, and the results are encouraging.
“The numbers are drawn off a computer and the officers are told on the spot, you’ve got to go test right now,” said DPS Director Ted Sakai. “It’s a good test and I’m pleased to say that very few ACO’s have been caught with anything in their system.”
Full story: Random testing shows majority of corrections officers are clean