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State police K-9 units recruited to sniff out drugs in prisons
By benningtonbanner.com- Katie Jickling
Published: 07/24/2014

The Vermont State Police and the Vermont Department of Corrections have signed an agreement to have regular and on-call K-9 drug detection teams in Vermont prisons to help stem the flow of drugs to inmates.

The parties this month signed a memorandum of understanding committing up to $25,000 for one year of searches throughout the state's correctional facility system.

The visits will take place "multiple times a year" in each of the seven state prisons, DOC Director of Facilities Michael Touchette said, though he declined to specify exactly how often the searches would occur. Touchette said DOC finds contraband substances about once a week.

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