A study in Australia has found that there is a major problem with the amount of prisoners testing positive for illegal drugs in the West Australian prison system.
The report found that about 900 prisoners had tested positive for drugs in the last year - mainly amphetamines and cannibis.
This represented a 22% increase over the same period last year.
A bored population of criminals (many with a history of drug use) in combination with an underpaid (read: potentially corruptible) guard staff and there’s a drug problem?
Who woulda thunk?
Of course, the politicians are quick to jump on the predictability bandwagon, with the incumbents claiming that the increase in figures is a result of improved detection and the opposition claiming the figures are due to a rising problem - yawn.
The debate grows more tedious among the political vultures on an almost daily basis.
when you can’t keep prisons drug-free…
…and you can’t keep schools drug-free…it’s hard to argue drug war is anything aside from a colassal failure.