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Jails use high-tech screening
By The Star-Ledger
Published: 08/21/2006

TRENTON, NJ - Before each shift, every New Jersey corrections officer lines up at the prison entrance to walk through metal detectors so sensitive they can distinguish between a knife and a coin.

Installed last year, the metal detectors are the latest attempt by the Department of Corrections to keep knives, guns, cellular phones and other contraband from entering any of the state's 14 prisons.

The department also is expanding the use of devices known as "body orifice security scanners," chair-like machines that can determine if inmates are smuggling anything inside their bodies...Read more.

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