Also in his testimony before our committee, Commissioner Head indicated that there were some 2,406 drug-related seizures in federal prisons, and that the rate of seizures has been increasing.
You mentioned some of the ways that drugs get into prisons. I'm very much aware of many of those. Friends of mine work at Warkworth Institution, and they fill me in on what's going on from their perspective. In other words, they're members of your union, and we have good conversations. Some of them have expressed to me that one reason we have the increase in seizures is that they've been given new tools and there is a new concentration on trying to keep drugs out of prisons.
I know you would have friends who are not members of your union, just neighbours, who would find it difficult to understand how drugs can get into prisons, and they have concerns. I wonder if you might let us know what you think are some of the reasons there has been an increase in drug seizures.