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| New Hampshire Halts Visitations After Four Prison Overdoses in One Week |
| By thefix.com- Paul Gaita |
| Published: 01/17/2017 |
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Drug overdoses among the inmate population at two prisons in New Hampshire—including one fatality—spurred state officials to cancel visitations while its Department of Corrections could determine how the substances entered the system. Three inmates at the New Hampshire State Prison for Men in Concord were found unresponsive in residential areas of the facility during the weekend of Jan. 7. All three survived, but another inmate at the Calumet Transitional Housing Unit in Manchester did not. Warden Michael Zenk of the Concord state prison canceled all visits for the week, allowing regular inmate visitations to resume on Saturday, Jan. 14. Zenk addressed the visitation shutdown in a statement that read, "This action is being taken to protect the safety of the inmate population until the Department of Corrections Investigations Bureau can identify the type and source of the drugs used by the inmates as well as the point of entry for the drugs." Read More. |
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