The New York State prison system utilized a faulty drug test that resulted in 1,652 incarcerated people being wrongfully punished with solitary confinement, longer prison terms and bans on family visits, according to a new report from the state IG.
New York Inspector General Lucy Lang presented findings at a press conference on Tuesday.
Lang called the scandal “a perfect storm” of “bad decisions and sometimes accidents that led to really catastrophic results that traumatized many, many New Yorkers.” The state now uses different drug tests, and it no longer allows solitary confinement as punishment for failing a drug test. In addition, the state now contracts with a different company for drug tests.
The company’s own procedures mandate that separate, second tests be used to confirm positives. But those protocols weren’t followed, the inspector general said. One incarcerated man who tested positive for buprenorphine was wrongly informed by a Microgenics representative that over-the-counter medication could not cause a false reading. The man was sent to solitary confinement for six months.
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