Faulty Drug Field Tests Can Both Lead to Incarceration and Make Incarceration Worse++

in fieldtest •  3 years ago 

In January of 2019, I wrote about how drug field tests that produce many false positive results are used as a basis for arresting and jailing people for drug crimes and have even been used as leverage to induce many people to plead guilty. But, that is not the entire problem with the tests. In addition to leading to people ending up in jails and prisons, false positive results of the faulty drug field tests are used in jails and prisons as a justification for enhancing restrictions on inmates.

Continue reading at http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2021/october/14/faulty-drug-field-tests-can-both-lead-to-incarceration-and-make-incarceration-worse/

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