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| Missouri's corrections system has a drug problem |
| By stltoday.com- Jesse Bogan 9 |
| Published: 05/26/2015 |
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Smugglers and contraband have been around as long as security, walls — and addicts. In Missouri’s prison system, the cat-and-mouse game of illicit drugs pits 32,000 inmates of the Department of Corrections and thousands more on probation and parole, against the 11,000 employees of the Department of Corrections. It’s a game that Missouri’s largest agency often loses, according to a Post-Dispatch assessment of the prison system’s own data. Narcotics violations accounted for about a fifth of 5,065 reports of illegal activity within Missouri’s prison system from 2011 to mid-2014. All told, the corrections department’s office of Inspector General recorded 980 such incidents during that period, ranking it as the second most common violation — behind assault of an inmate by an inmate. Read More. |
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