More jails considering body scans to find or deter contraband

The people who run the Tri-County Regional Jail have heard the stories: weapons and drugs stuffed into parts of prisoners’ bodies where weapons and drugs are never supposed to be. Guards there don’t have any of their own harrowing tales of finding contraband hidden that way. But they’ve confiscated plenty of drugs — and uncovered a few weapons — in the jail in Mechanicsburg, which serves Champaign, Madison and Union counties. And they know those things were smuggled