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Somerset County Jail becomes first Maine county jail to do full body scan of inmates
By centralmaine.com- Doug Harlow
Published: 01/20/2017

EAST MADISON — In the parlance of corrections officials in Maine, a jail inmate is said to be “packing” if he or she is attempting to traffic contraband into a correctional facility.

Drugs. Weapons. Needles. Tobacco. Even cellphones.

Contraband can be swallowed in balloons or condoms and passed later, or secreted into a body cavity to be retrieved once the inmate is booked into the facility.

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