Corrections Mail Processing News & Articles

• How to strike a balance between mail security and prisoners’ rights

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  The first step for prison officials is to have a clear view of the mail security vulnerabilities in their particular facility

• How to build a layered contraband detection strategy and why it matters (eBook)

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  Learn why a layered screening strategy is so important and how it can help your facility plug holes

• On-Demand Webinar: Hidden in plain sight: See smuggled drugs and contraband in inmate legal mail, without opening it

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  View this webinar to learn real-life insights on how to maintain, protect, reduce and detect contraband

• Illegal drugs among most significant mail threats, new report says

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  A new report provides some insight into a pervasive yet often overlooked security threat

• Ill. federal prison officers being sickened by mailed-in drugs, union says

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  The union is calling for more resources, including a mail scanner, to help reduce the risk to officers

• How a new tabletop tool provides proactive detection for COVID-19 and other pathogens

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  The portable BioFlash Biological Identifier can detect and identify the presence of low levels of aerosolized COVID-19 in any part of your facility

• Spotlight: SwabTek's tests provide a simple and safe means to presumptively field test for threat compounds, narcotics and explosives by police

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  The company's test kits were first designed as an alternative to traditional threat detection technologies

• Calif. county to ban non-legal mail delivery to inmates

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  The remaining mail items will be sent to a contracted vendor to be screened and digitally scanned

• N.C. to change way mail gets to inmates starting in October

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  Disciplinary infractions for substance use by offenders dropped by 50% the year after a pilot began using TextBehind

• How one tool helps COs screen mail for illicit drugs quickly and safely

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  ChemImage’s VeroVision Mail Screener provides a reliable, non-destructive, efficient approach to detecting illicit drugs in the mail quickly and safely

• Battling narcotics in jail mail

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  The creativity behind contraband smuggling is endless so it is imperative that correctional officials stay abreast with what inmates are conspiring

• COVID-19: How public safety companies are assisting the frontline pandemic response

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  The businesses that equip and serve first responders are supporting the national emergency response with new products, free services and donations

• Spotlight: ChemImage products help quickly, easily and objectively detect drugs concealed in inmate mail

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  Unlike other contraband detection methods, VeroVision Mail Screener takes the guesswork out of mail screening

• 5 essential training topics for correctional officers

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  The challenge in corrections is not identifying topics to train on, but prioritizing time and resources to cover the many subjects that can lead to high-risk situations

• How to prevent drug-smuggling visitors

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  During contact visitation, you are on surveillance detail, so stay alert and never become complacent

• US prisons will photocopy inmate mail to curb drug smuggling

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  Officials would not say if COs will be assigned to make photocopies

• Court: Prisoner mail policy is proper

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  Prisoner mail policy helps reduce the risk of contraband entering the jail and cuts staff time required to check incoming mail

• Pa. prisons to stop copying inmates' legal mail

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  Lawyers said the policy made it impossible for them to communicate confidentially with clients

• Deal near in civil rights lawsuits over Pa. prison mail policy

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  Officials say they're close to settling lawsuits over how the system processes mail sent to inmates by their lawyers

• Contraband control tips for Valentine’s Day

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  While contraband control is a year-round endeavor, facilities can see a spike in trading of illicit goods over the Valentine’s Day holiday

• K-9 sniffs out drugs mailed to Calif. jail

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  The K-9 sniffed out two letters containing methamphetamine

• Returned Christmas cards anger Pa. prison activists, inmates' loved ones

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  Pa. activists are alleging the state Department of Corrections unfairly kept 500 Christmas cards from inmates

• Pa. DOC taking heat for revised mail policy at facilities

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  Legal advocates are promising a federal court challenge if the Pa. DOC does not revisit it's policy on handling legal mail