Talk about wasteful spending, using $400,000 to copy inmate mail! There are better ways to combat drugs, but giving copies of letters to inmates won’t solve the problem.
I know a number of prison guards in a Lower 48 state as well as a few ex-inmates. Drugs are introduced by visitors being allowed to bring in too much stuff which can hide contraband, or inmates trading their medicines in the medicine line. In some cases drugs come in via vendors, guards and letters, but those incidents are few and far between.
Yes, there are known group of drug users that the prison can target, but to deny all other prisoners their letters and cards from family is unnecessary prisoner abuse.
— Liz Forsman
Anchorage
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