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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 349138" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p><em><strong>"He came to my door a min later and said there was more he had to tell me- he had tried smoking pot once- while in Department of Juvenile Justice. (Talk about a mother feeling smoke about to come out of her ears! Should I report this?) He swaers it didn't get in there by staff but I have serious doubts about that."</strong></em></p><p> </p><p>I would tend to believe him on that one. I work in a big (1,500 inmates) adult male correctional facility and 99.9% of the drugs that come in are smuggled in with visitors or through the mail. As careful as they are, there will always be some that gets in. You can only search visitors just so thoroughly before it is considered to be 'violating their rights"! Not saying that staff have <em>never</em> done it but it's pretty rare and not worth loosing your job over. When it's happened where I work, it's almost always some dumb new person who is easily swayed by the inmates and doesn't realize how easily he can be caught.</p><p> </p><p>And probably too much information, but about HOW visitors smuggle things in ... think of "nature's little hiding places"! Yeah, they DO that! All the time! You just would not believe how 'creative' some of them can get with bringing things in! It's mind-boggling! Some of them think they're being soooo clever and don't realize that the staff has seen the same thing a thousand times! We have a drug-sniffing dog, Mick, who is a giant black lab, and if they'd let us, he would catch every last one of them. But when they brought him in on visiting days, even just sitting there, people complained and they stopped it. He's perfectly friendly, but very thorough and VERY big!</p><p> </p><p>And if this is a STATE run institution, staff will be routinely and randomly drug screened and would have to pass a drug screening before they were hired. That's pretty well standard procedure.</p><p> </p><p>I just keep adding on here but was your son drug tested before he left the institution? That's standard procedure too unless they have flattened their sentence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 349138, member: 1883"] [I][B]"He came to my door a min later and said there was more he had to tell me- he had tried smoking pot once- while in Department of Juvenile Justice. (Talk about a mother feeling smoke about to come out of her ears! Should I report this?) He swaers it didn't get in there by staff but I have serious doubts about that."[/B][/I] I would tend to believe him on that one. I work in a big (1,500 inmates) adult male correctional facility and 99.9% of the drugs that come in are smuggled in with visitors or through the mail. As careful as they are, there will always be some that gets in. You can only search visitors just so thoroughly before it is considered to be 'violating their rights"! Not saying that staff have [I]never[/I] done it but it's pretty rare and not worth loosing your job over. When it's happened where I work, it's almost always some dumb new person who is easily swayed by the inmates and doesn't realize how easily he can be caught. And probably too much information, but about HOW visitors smuggle things in ... think of "nature's little hiding places"! Yeah, they DO that! All the time! You just would not believe how 'creative' some of them can get with bringing things in! It's mind-boggling! Some of them think they're being soooo clever and don't realize that the staff has seen the same thing a thousand times! We have a drug-sniffing dog, Mick, who is a giant black lab, and if they'd let us, he would catch every last one of them. But when they brought him in on visiting days, even just sitting there, people complained and they stopped it. He's perfectly friendly, but very thorough and VERY big! And if this is a STATE run institution, staff will be routinely and randomly drug screened and would have to pass a drug screening before they were hired. That's pretty well standard procedure. I just keep adding on here but was your son drug tested before he left the institution? That's standard procedure too unless they have flattened their sentence. [/QUOTE]
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