10/23/23

The Virginia Department of Corrections says that its mail screening service stopped more than 100 pieces of mail containing suspected drugs over the first nine-and-a-half months of the year.
In a release, a VADOC spokesperson said that between January 1st and September 15th, the department’s Centralized Mail Unit intercepted 113 packages and envelopes addressed to inmates that contained some type of contraband.
Director Chadwick Dotson said that the unit is “continuously improving” its screening process to stay on top of what he calls a “war against drugs and contraband.”
Last year, VADOC said that drugs were intercepted in the mail 119 times at state facilities.