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| Vermont prison staff may be searched for drugs |
| By reformer.com- Dave Gram |
| Published: 08/15/2014 |
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MONTPELIER -- Corrections officers and other prison staff in Vermont soon will be subject to search as they enter the facilities in an effort to curb drugs and other contraband. Deputy Corrections Commissioner Lisa Menard and other department officials appeared before the legislative committee that oversees the prison system Thursday to update lawmakers on the progress of developing the new guidelines for the searches, which are expected to go into effect next winter. Michael Touchette, director of facilities for the Corrections Department, said the department had recorded more than 200 cases of contraband entering the prisons in each of the three years ending in 2012, the most recent for which data were available. He said a tiny minority of the cases involved staff. Read More. |
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