Contraband: Weapons

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

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

All 24 state and three private prisons remain locked down indefinitely following the weekend fights

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More than 300 officers took part in the 10-hour operation

A man serving life for stabbing his parents and three siblings to death tried to attack staff with an 8-inch long "sharpened instrument"

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

Eliminate the potential for improvised weapons by using cleaning tools made from materials that can’t be sharpened

Investigators have found more homemade weapons at the prison more than two years after the fatal riot

COs can’t overlook the importance of basic search techniques

Police say a 33-year-old inmate stabbed his 71-year-old cellmate more than 10 times

Decrease the risk of inmates injuring themselves and others by adopting the paperboard EcoSecurity Utensil