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| State prisons toughen screenings of visitors |
| By smdailyjournal.com |
| Published: 09/25/2014 |
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SACRAMENTO — Starting next month, California will begin implementing one of the nation’s toughest protocols for access to state prisons in an attempt to reduce the flow of illegal drugs to inmates. Most of the procedures outlined Wednesday by state corrections officials — including airport-style hand swabs and drug-sniffing dogs — will apply to visitors and staff. Visitors also would be subject to strip searches if initial testing indicates they have been in contact with illicit drugs. That has raised alarm among inmate-advocacy groups, which say the new procedures invade privacy and will discourage visitation. “As a family member, it is a serious violation of my human rights to be forced to be humiliated in order to see my brother and give him family support,” Marie Levin of the Prison Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition said in a statement. Read More. |
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