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Officials Suspend Use Of Prison Testing System

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By Max Jacobs

Story Published: Apr 22, 2008 at 11:26 AM CDT

Story Updated: Apr 22, 2008 at 7:44 PM CDT

We have an update on a prison visiting policy we told you about at the end of February.

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In a special report, Kelly Watson showed us how some visitors at prisons were turned away due to a positive ion spectrometry drug test.

The people Kelly spoke with said they have never handled illegal drugs -yet the test came back positive.

Since the story aired, the Office of Security Technology discovered there is a software problem with the ion testing and notified the manufacturers to make corrections.

The Bureau of Prison is suspending the use of the equipment until the correction has been made.

Visitors suspended from seeing inmates due to a positive test may write the warden and request visiting privileges reinstated.

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