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13/03/2015
Prisons To Get New X-Ray Drug Scanners
The Justice Secretary Chris Grayling is believed to have agreed the purchase of a new generation drug scanner for English prisons.
The decision follows a report from the Centre for Social Justice that said the new X-ray scanners were a "game changer" in US prisons, adding that the devices could "revolutionise" drug searches in the UK facilities.
Currently prison officers carry out manual searches, which can make drugs that have been swallowed or concealed within a persons body difficult to find.
However the CSJ believes that the low-dosage X-ray scanners would solve this issue.
(MH/IT)
The decision follows a report from the Centre for Social Justice that said the new X-ray scanners were a "game changer" in US prisons, adding that the devices could "revolutionise" drug searches in the UK facilities.
Currently prison officers carry out manual searches, which can make drugs that have been swallowed or concealed within a persons body difficult to find.
However the CSJ believes that the low-dosage X-ray scanners would solve this issue.
(MH/IT)
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