Inside CDCR: K-9 teams patrol state prisons

Meet the officers - four- and two-legged - dedicated to ridding California prisons of dangerous contraband.
In February 2019, eight new teams successfully completed the department’s fifth 280-hour K-9 academy. They’re part of the CDCR K-9 program expansion, slated for completion in April 2019, that will result in 76 teams supporting prisons throughout the state.
K-9 teams are just part of an expansive contraband interdiction program that includes Investigative Services Units, metal detectors, parcel scanners, phone interruption technology, low-dose full-body scanners, and detection/elimination of cellphone services. Those efforts combined aim to eliminate contraband inside prison walls with the goal of safer prisons focused on rehabilitative programming and preparing incarcerated people for successful returns home.
From January 2017 to December 2018, CDCR K-9 teams discovered 14,335.9 grams of marijuana, 343.5 pounds of tobacco, 7,109.1 grams of methamphetamine, 4,025.9 grams of heroin and 24,910 phones.
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