New body scanner already proving successful at La. jail
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The system will help catch hidden weapons and other potential contraband, like swallowed baggies of drugs, limiting the odds anything banned will make it into the prison population, Breaux said. Arresting officers or deputies will drive up to the booking area and enter the scanning room through an exterior door. If anything prohibited is captured on the offenders person, like a knife or gun, the arresting officer can remove it before bringing the individual upstairs for processing and a strip search. The machine will hopefully be a difference maker in stopping illegal drugs entering the jail facility, Breaux said. After certifying staff on the machine, the scanner went into effect Tuesday and an inmate was found with suspected baggies of illegal drugs in his stomach, which were being evacuated under the oversight of doctors to later be confiscated.