BOP Suspends Use of Ion Spectrometry Drug Testing
Hello Friends:
The good news for April was the ION detection or Ion Spectrometry devices used on people visiting imprisoned loved ones is over -- for now. Citing computer malfunctions the manufacturers are working on fixing, a memo posted at Seagoville Federal Correctional Facility can be read here.
A lot of people worked on this issue, from prisoners to their loved ones who were turned away due to testing positive for illegal drugs. We of the November Coalition have been working on publicizing the problem, and contacting our leaders for action for many years.
The bad news is the Bureau of Prisons has revised some visitation policy. You can download the Program Statement -- in which the Bureau of Prisons wants us also to know -- we don't have any constitutional right to visitation: 5510_012.pdf
Troubling provisions that would allow for a visual strip search of people that want to visit their loved ones in prison, and also new policy that would allow a visitor to have to be drug tested at any time before, during or after the visit are some of the details in the document of new federal prison policies.
Meanwhile, the people that serve the prison machine, making regular delivery of items to the prison - or visits for many reasons are not subject to drug tests, or strip searches. People who have regular access to the prisons, and that includes guards are the way most drugs get into the prisons.
For people that have the unfortunate situation to have a loved one in prison to bear the brunt of policies designed to keep illegal drugs out of prison isn't any surprise, but an injustice that continues.
If the federal bureau of prisons drug tests you, or subjects you to a visual strip search, because you wanted to visit your loved one, we want to know
To see what a visual strip search by the BOP entails, check out this video.
To see human behavior and bad policy colliding watch this one.
It's not too early to complain, in fact before we are forced to expose more scandals involving our mothers and prison visitation problems, citizens can ask their federal judicial leaders to look at the new program statement. Do taxpayers want to pay to drug test moms, fathers and children of federal prisoners? Do they want to sanction strip searches of us? I bet not.
You might notice I moved the Blog to E Blogger in hopes that comments won't be hijacked by spammers. I look forward to blogging regularly, listening to your shared comments on a better program than previous.
The good news for April was the ION detection or Ion Spectrometry devices used on people visiting imprisoned loved ones is over -- for now. Citing computer malfunctions the manufacturers are working on fixing, a memo posted at Seagoville Federal Correctional Facility can be read here.
A lot of people worked on this issue, from prisoners to their loved ones who were turned away due to testing positive for illegal drugs. We of the November Coalition have been working on publicizing the problem, and contacting our leaders for action for many years.
The bad news is the Bureau of Prisons has revised some visitation policy. You can download the Program Statement -- in which the Bureau of Prisons wants us also to know -- we don't have any constitutional right to visitation: 5510_012.pdf
Troubling provisions that would allow for a visual strip search of people that want to visit their loved ones in prison, and also new policy that would allow a visitor to have to be drug tested at any time before, during or after the visit are some of the details in the document of new federal prison policies.
Meanwhile, the people that serve the prison machine, making regular delivery of items to the prison - or visits for many reasons are not subject to drug tests, or strip searches. People who have regular access to the prisons, and that includes guards are the way most drugs get into the prisons.
For people that have the unfortunate situation to have a loved one in prison to bear the brunt of policies designed to keep illegal drugs out of prison isn't any surprise, but an injustice that continues.
If the federal bureau of prisons drug tests you, or subjects you to a visual strip search, because you wanted to visit your loved one, we want to know
To see what a visual strip search by the BOP entails, check out this video.
To see human behavior and bad policy colliding watch this one.
It's not too early to complain, in fact before we are forced to expose more scandals involving our mothers and prison visitation problems, citizens can ask their federal judicial leaders to look at the new program statement. Do taxpayers want to pay to drug test moms, fathers and children of federal prisoners? Do they want to sanction strip searches of us? I bet not.
You might notice I moved the Blog to E Blogger in hopes that comments won't be hijacked by spammers. I look forward to blogging regularly, listening to your shared comments on a better program than previous.
Labels: drug detection devices, drug war injustice, ion spectomery, prison visitation
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