False positive drug tests can send prisoners to solitary. I may have been one of them. Column by keribla, published in partnership with MarshallProj.
, a nonprofit newsroom covering the U.S. criminal justice system. The column draws on Blakinger’s unique perspective as an investigative journalist and formerly incarcerated person.
The guards crammed us all into a grimy holding cell with one toilet, then came back a few hours later for strip searches. One at a time, we squatted and coughed and lifted our breasts. Just when we thought it was over, one of them returned. He said they’d found powder in my cell, and it tested positive for opiates. I was confused — and terrified.
I told him he was wrong, begged him to drug test me. But he kept shouting, threatening solitary confinement and new charges.
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