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Can we get drugs out of prisons?

The Inquiry

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The Problem of Drugs in Prisons

Martinhorn served in the late nineties as the secretary of corrections for the state of pennsylvania and commissioner of correction city of new york. He was asked by the governor of pennsylvania to assess the scale of the problem of drugs in the states prisons. What martin discovered was profoundly shocking. On any given day, it appeared that about ten per cent of inmates were high or had been high within the last 30 days. That was quite substantial. But is this how the problem has typically been dealt with? Time for aur second expert witness, part two,. tackling the problem drugs fore getting into the pris inmates were getting high.

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