I’m a little surprised that this is a new thing. I would have thought that prisons would have done this long ago. Using paper as a medium for drug use is not new.
Starting Dec. 6, all Wisconsin prisoners will only receive photocopies of their personal mail — not the originals — because of a new policy aimed at curbing the infiltration of paper laced with a dangerous drug.
The policy was implemented as a pilot at Fox Lake Correctional Institution in April, but is now being expanded to the entire state prison system because of its success in reducing overdoses and violent behavior associated with K2, or “spice,” a mind-altering synthetic cannabinoid. Paper can be laced with K2 and then smoked, which is how the drug was getting through the mail.
And this is a bit too typical.
During the pilot, Fox Lake prisoners said they saw months-long delays in receiving mail, educational materials denied, missing pages and the margins of letters cut off with no way to get the missing material back, the Wisconsin State Journal reported in September. But the Department of Corrections said it has hired an outside company to process the photocopying, which should fix the problems inmates saw with the pilot.
“Hiring a group that specializes in this type of work should minimize any issues with the photocopies,” DOC Division of Adult Institutions Administrator Sarah Cooper said.
What I am still surprised at is how liberals fight like dogs to make sure criminals get all their rights, including ones that are taken away by law, and then fight like dogs to take away as many rights as possible from law abiding people with different political views, including ones guaranteed by law. The liberal way, ‘follow the laws we like’.
It sure seems like taking away mail privileges would be a basic easy fix. Everyone shares that same type of penalty, but not criminals. I get too many speeding tickets and I lose my license. A criminal gets illegal drugs through the mail while in jail and no one stops it because criminals always get their mail? More liberal way, I guess. Seriously committed to making America weaker and dumber in the name of votes and power. I wonder if they would win a current election without their illegal immigrant, convict, and graveyard voting blocks…
Do Republicans have any illegal voting blocks? It is not much of a wonder that they are guilty of ‘voter suppression’ efforts. There are so many illegal votes to try and suppress. Liberals only cry about the random old person or the odd minority person who has been a victim of a suppression law, but don’t ever put two and two together and see that their political masters are really fighting the laws to protect the ‘rights’ of the illegal, the inmate and the voting dead.