A Moncton woman is frustrated with the screening process after being refused a chance to visit her brother at Dorchester Pentitentiary.
The ion scanner screening visitors found traces of Fentanyl on her and she tells us she doesn’t use the drug and has never even seen it in real life.
Ashley Szymanski says it’s very upsetting especially for those who are travelling to visit.
She says it’s quite an ordeal to go in there and it’s anxiety-ridden and stressful and you do it because someone you love is in there that needs you.
She adds to have to be humiliated because they think you have drugs is wrong.
After speaking with penitentiary staff, Szymanski was told she can visit her brother.
Petition re Ion scanners in Canada’s federal prisons: False positives discourage visits https://t.co/mqKzKBJS1p
— John Howard Society (@JohnHoward_Can) April 19, 2016
An online petition urges Federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale to address what it calls the alarming rate of false positive results at Canadian prisons through ion scanners.
To read the petition, click here
