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• 6 COs, 15 others charged in Rikers Island bribery case

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  The COs are accused of taking thousands of dollars in bribes to smuggle drugs to inmates

• Roundtable: Critical issues in corrections in 2019

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  From staff shortages to high-tech contraband, correctional officers faced many threats this year

• Officials: SC drug investigation highlights cell phone contraband problem

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  54 people were indicted in a drug trafficking network officials said probably wouldn't exist if inmates did not have cell phones

• Neb. prisons seek crackdown on 'out-of-control' contraband

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  Officials: Officers have found hundreds of contraband items, sweeps do not deter contraband smuggling

• Prison officials: Signal jamming would curb illegal cell phone use

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  Bills to allow signal jamming in federal prisons, which is currently banned, are pending in Congress

• Officials: Texas inmates repeatedly escaped, returned with booze

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  The inmates had contraband including alcohol and phones

• Neb. prison on lockdown, watchdog cites rising tensions

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  Administrators said the search that began Wednesday was a "no holds barred" attempt to stop contraband from flowing into the Nebraska State Penitentiary

• RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan stable after prison stabbing

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  The stabbing occurred Friday afternoon at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego

• Ala. K-9 who died after drug contact honored at memorial

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  The 5-year-old Belgian Malinois named Jake suddenly became ill on July 18 after he came into contact with a drug known as flakka during a prison contraband sweep

• Overdoses in Calif. prisons up 113% in three years

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  The rise in overdoses comes despite the state pouring millions into technologies designed to block contraband at prison entry points

• Okla. prison system overwhelmed by smuggled cellphones

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  In 2016, correctional officers confiscated a record 9,766 cellphones from inmates

• As Pa. prisons ban tobacco, new informal currencies arise

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  Inmates may use more chips, ice cream tickets and ramen as forms of currency

• Pa. to ban tobacco in all state prisons

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  Starting July 1, all Pennsylvania prisons are banning tobacco products

• Okla. woman accused of using T-shirt gun to shoot contraband over prison fence

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  The woman was arrested not far from the prison

• SC inmates to get tablets for movies, phone calls

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  Officials hope the devices will curb the amount of contraband cell phones being smuggled into facilities

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