Texas prisons stopped in-person visits and limited mail. Drugs got in anyway.

[JacksinPA]

Texas prisons stopped in-person visits and limited mail. Drugs got in anyway.

Agency data shows officers are finding just as many drugs — and writing up even more prisoners for having them — despite the restrictions. Contraband is most often brought in by staff, according to prisoners and employees.

www.texastribune.org

Last year, the Texas prison system unwittingly started a controlled experiment.

Agency leaders have long blamed prisoners’ friends and families for a constant flow of drugs they say are often smuggled in through visits and greeting cards. To combat this, prison officials in early March set up new rules curtailing prisoner mail. Two weeks later, they shut down visitation to fight the spread of the coronavirus.

Now they could see: Would the changes stop the booming drug trade in Texas lockups?
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This sounds like a major lapse in security.

I'm sure the successful importers in the can make a good living selling these drugs to others. No free lunch in the Texas cans.

 

[bongsaway]

If you are inferring it's the guards bringing in the drugs you are mistaken, they would never do such a thing.

A stork flies overhead and drops a bundle into the exercise yard.

 

[noonereal]

This sounds like a major lapse in security.

sounds to me like security are the supplies.

 

[JacksinPA]

If you are inferring it's the guards bringing in the drugs you are mistaken, they would never do such a thing.

A stork flies overhead and drops a bundle into the exercise yard.

Or a drone. At night. You could use its internal GPS to drop a package in the right spot for pickup later.

 

[bongsaway]

Or a drone. At night. You could use its internal GPS to drop a package in the right spot for pickup later.

I'm wondering if it could be el chapo with another tunnel into the prison?

 

[JacksinPA]

I'm wondering if it could be el chapo with another tunnel into the prison?

Anything is possible there.

 

[bongsaway]

Anything is possible there.

Anything but the obvious, it's the guards.

 

[Napoleon]

If you are inferring it's the guards bringing in the drugs you are mistaken, they would never do such a thing.

A stork flies overhead and drops a bundle into the exercise yard.

Well, there was actually an interesting problem in Ohio prisons where people were using drones to drop drugs and weapons into prison yards.