The prison yard initiated a lockdown that restricted inmates to their cells in response to a spike in overdoses.
SOLEDAD — Officials at Salinas Valley State Prison are investigating a spike in drug overdoses during a 10-day period in late March, as well as a recent fatality believed to be related.
The overdoses appear to be part of a nationwide trend that has seen a dramatic increase in drug overdoses among incarcerated people since 2001. One study that examined a 17-year period ending in 2018 showed a 600 percent increase. CDCR’s internal data says overdose deaths reached a 5-year high in 2019 but dropped to their lowest point in 2020, when the department restricted visits and tried to limit contact between staff an inmates due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for CDCR, said the department uses “visual inspections, clothed body searches, visual unclothed body searches, hand-held metal detectors, walk-through metal detectors, walk-through x-ray scanners, audio and video surveillance devices, and canine units” to restrict the flow of contraband in its prisons.
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