Texas prisons stopped in-person visits and limited mail. Drugs got in anyway.
Last year, the Texas prison system unwittingly started a controlled experiment. The main source of the drugs, according to more than a dozen people who lived or worked in Texas prisons over the past year: low-paid employees in understaffed facilities. โฆ Itโs so easy to get it in.โShe asked not to be named for fear of retaliation from the prison agency. Texas prison officers start at a salary of about $36,000; the maximum is less than $45,000. AdA perennial problemFrom shanks to phones to drugs, contraband of all types has been a perennial source of consternation for Texas prison officials.