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| Arizona prisons struggle with keeping drugs out |
| By mohavedailynews.com - AP |
| Published: 06/06/2012 |
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PHOENIX (AP) — Several recent deaths of Arizona inmates involving heroin are causing some to question how illegal drugs initially made it past prison walls. The Arizona Republic reports seven inmates in the past two years have died from drug overdoses. The state Department of Corrections has called the deaths accidental. Officers at most of the prisons have failed to properly search staff and visitors, according to a department report done a year after three inmates mounted a 2010 escape. The DOC says it has improved security procedures since then. In May, a multi-agency investigation, in which the DOC participated, dismantled a drug ring connected to a state prison. The operation resulted in 44 arrests and the seizure of 32 pounds of heroin and 5 pounds of cocaine. A spokesman for the Arizona attorney general said the ring was run by three brothers. All of the siblings were incarcerated. Corrections director Charles Ryan said drugs and other contraband can be transported through visitors, incoming mail, off-site inmate work crews and staff. Ryan said prison visitors seem to be the primary source of drugs. Read More. |
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