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| Body scans used to find or deter contraband |
| By dispatch.com- Holly Zachariah |
| Published: 11/23/2015 |
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The people who run the Tri-County Regional Jail have heard the stories: weapons and drugs stuffed into parts of prisoners’ bodies where weapons and drugs are never supposed to be. Guards there don’t have any of their own harrowing tales of finding contraband hidden that way. But they’ve confiscated plenty of drugs — and uncovered a few weapons — in the jail in Mechanicsburg, which serves Champaign, Madison and Union counties. And they know those things were smuggled in somehow. So after months of study, the commission that runs the jail is expected to approve buying a $190,000 body-scanning, low-dose X-ray machine to check every inmate being booked in. The vote is scheduled for January, and the scanner would be paid for using operating and capital-improvement money. Read More. |
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