Security changes working; 80% drop in jail weapons
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YAKIMA, Wash. -- Dangerous weapons in the Yakima County Jail forced changes to keep them under control.
The weapons aren't being smuggled into the jail. Inmates find ways to make them with their free time. The jail added fencing, metal detectors and officers to try to limit the weapons. Officers said the number of dangerous weapons at the jail dropped by about 80 percent recently.
Jail officers said the weapons have been used in three serious attacks over the last three years. Two were life-threatening
The weapons aren't being smuggled into the jail. Inmates find ways to make them with their free time. The jail added fencing, metal detectors and officers to try to limit the weapons. Officers said the number of dangerous weapons at the jail dropped by about 80 percent recently.
Jail officers said the weapons have been used in three serious attacks over the last three years. Two were life-threatening
This has been and will be a problem for jails and prisons, thinking or suggesting they have a hand on it is ill conceived.
Inmates will and do take common objects that are available to them to make weapons, continued pat downs and searches will help not stop.