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DOJ Urges FCC to Block Contraband Cellphones

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has gone on record as supporting efforts by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to block cell phones unlawfully in prisons, calling the devices a threat to public safety and prison security. The late August letter from Assistant Attorney General Beth Williams, head of DOJ’s Office of Legal Policy, also says

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Synthetic Marijuana Poses Big Problem for Bureau of Prisons

  Federal inmates get random urine tests for signs of use of drugs like heroin, cocaine or marijuana. But in the alcohol and drug rehabilitation web newsletter The Fix, former federal inmate turned-writer Seth Ferranti, who served time for an LSD offense, argues the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has yet to come to grips with

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Atlanta Federal Prison Inmates Freely Come and Go

In the late ’60s and early ’70s, late-night talk show host and comedian Dick Cavett used to tell stories about his none-too-bright cousin Norman. How dumb was Norman? Well, in one of a long series of failures, Norman set out to become a zookeeper, but couldn’t make a success of it. Why not? Because –

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Smuggling Chaplain Shows BOP Has More to Do on Contraband

The U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) constantly battles to keep contraband – weapons, drugs, cellphones and other items – out of its correctional facilities. The dangers of weapons are obvious, but cellphones can be equally perilous, having been used to plot escapes and the intimidation – or worse – of witnesses, or to enable criminal

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