Texas Prisons Stopped In-Person Visits and Limited Mail. Drugs Got in Anyway.

[AZProgressive]

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.

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No, they did not, an investigation by The Texas Tribune and The Marshall Project found. Instead, staff and prisoners say the problem is worse, and agency data show guards are finding just as many drugs and writing up even more prisoners for having them.

The main source of the drugs, according to more than a dozen people who lived or worked in Texas prisons over the past year: low-paid employees in understaffed facilities.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/03/29/texas-prisons-stopped-in-person-visits-and-limited-mail-drugs-got-in-anyway

[Tomconroy]

1. Always been that way. The staff brings it in.

[Mr.Bill]

2. Yep, they either get paid

or extorted.

[underpants]

3. In Virginia too

You can make as much working some fast food places at just the regular pay.