Greeting cards banned for TX prison inmates; drug dog searches for visitors increase

Greeting cards banned for TX prison inmates; drug dog searches for visitors increase

As of Sunday, Texas prison inmates can no longer receive greeting cards on colored paper from their children and loved ones. The new policy — named Inspect 2 Protect — was approved in February as a way to eliminate contraband, such as drugs, from coming into prisons through the mail, said Jeremy Desel, Texas Department of Criminal Justice director of communications.

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