Monday numbers: Opioid use disorder, drug and alcohol addiction in NC prisons
Late last year, an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement in an ongoing lawsuit explaining how the Americans With Disability Act impacted the availability of medications for opioid use disorder in jails and prisons. “People held in our nation’s jails and prisons, including those with substance use disorders, do not surrender […] The post Monday numbers: Opioid use disorder, drug and alcohol addiction in NC prisons appeared first on NC Newsline.
How inmates smuggle narcotics into Minnesota prisons
MINNEAPOLIS — Investigators have retrieved new evidence showing how prison inmates continue to smuggle narcotics, including now through books and magazines.John Melvin, Director of the Office of Special Investigations for the Minnesota Department of Corrections, told WCCO Investigates that the contraband is extremely tough to detect and they've relied on "intelligence" to intercept the drugs."There are people that want to use and they want to get high, and they will do just about anything to try to introduce that," Melvin lamented. Starting in June, staff at Stillwater, Rush City and Faribault correctional facilities began screening, scanning and reprinting mail after investigators discovered...