Ohio jail bans outside underwear in drug crackdown
Drug smuggling has become such a problem that jail has banned underwear deliveries
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Your support makes all the difference.One Ohio jail has gotten so sick of contraband being delivered to inmates that it has banned all underwear deliveries to prisoners in the jail.
Instead, the inmates at the Franklin County jail now are required to either buy underwear at the commissary or go commando, the Columbus Dispatch reported.
Corrections Division Chief Deputy Geoff Stobart told the newspaper that jail officials often find drugs in T-shirts or underwear delivered to inmates. He says it's common for marijuana or treatments for heroin addicts to be sewn into seams in the underwear.
In an effort to prevent this, the Franklin County Commissioners have approved spending $95,000 to contract with an outside company to provide the jail with T-shirts, socks, bras, men's boxers and briefs, and women's briefs.
If inmates are able, they can buy new undergarments in the jail. If not, they will have to either continue wearing the underwear they arrived in or go commando.
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