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| Jails take extra steps to detect drugs |
| By pressherald.com- Scott Dolan |
| Published: 04/25/2016 |
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Inmates never get the holiday cards sent by family members to the Cumberland County Jail in Portland. Instead, jail staff members give them black-and-white photocopies of the originals. That’s because manufactured greeting cards are made with multiple sheets of paper – perfect for allowing someone to unglue the sheets, line them with contraband drug strips and glue them back together for smuggling into the jail. Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce used that as one example of the ever-increasing number of steps the jail staff is taking to keep drugs from being smuggled into the state’s busiest jail. But even those efforts weren’t enough to save 24-year-old Nikco Walton, a jail inmate who investigators believe died of a fatal dose of smuggled drugs on April 11 while in a cell shared with his sleeping cellmate. Read More. |
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