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Ohio DOC Director Wants Return to Stricter Law after 2012 Spike in Positive Drug Tests

Loaded on Jan. 10, 2015 published in Prison Legal News January, 2015, page 48
Filed under: Drug Testing, Statistics/Trends. Location: Ohio.

Ohio DOC Director Wants Return to Stricter Law after 2012 Spike in Positive Drug Tests

Drug testing in Ohio prisons in October 2012 revealed the highest level of prisoner drug use in more than a decade, though the head of the state corrections department blamed the spike in …

 

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