Unfortunately, the reality is that unreformed inmates use these privileges to smuggle in drugs and other contraband. They wreck it for everybody.
That’s why matchbooks,in this case, are only allowed in by approved vendors,because unapproved ones would use the textbooks to smuggle in drugs.
It is why you can’t even have a ballpount pen, because of unreformed inmates. It is why he had to agree to keep these textbooks in a locked room and use them under supervision.
I pretty much agree with you Jonty. We can’t reform someone who does not want to be reformed. Inmates are offered all kinds of job training. For every one who reforms, a hundred others don’t. For the most part, it’s a losing proposition. Also, inmates don’t have internet access.
That is true.
The jail in which this person we know is used to allow food drop off, in boxes but friends and relatives.
One day the guards were inspecting the goods and found some sealed cans of Campbells soup that contained drugs. You can actually buy home canning equipment that will can metal cans, and so they must have done that, put the drugs in, and very carefully removed the labels from some soup casns and put them on the ones with the drugs.
Yes, a few bad apples can ruin it for everyone.
I wish there was an answer.