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By Paul McEnroe
The Star Tribune FARIBAULT, Minn. — A Christmas Eve incident involving LSD use by inmates at the state prison in Faribault turned chaotic when six prisoners suffered violent drug reactions that sent two to the hospital by ambulance and four to the Twin Cities by medical helicopter. The six inmates had attended a Narcotics Anonymous meeting that morning and passed the synthetic drug among themselves, according to corrections reports and interviews with authorities. Attempted drug smuggling is a near-daily event at Minnesota prisons, but authorities said the December incident was unusual for the violent reactions the drug touched off and the volatile 10-hour sequence of events that followed. High-ranking corrections officials would not characterize the significance of the incident, but they acknowledged that prison guards were exposed to a sequence of medical emergencies and physical confrontations with violent, hallucinating prisoners.  Full Story: Six inmates high on LSD unleash a day of chaos in Faribault |
