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• Prosecutor: Cause of drug exposure at Ohio prison unclear

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  Investigators haven't been able to determine how an inmate and 23 staff members were exposed to and sickened by a mix of heroin and fentanyl

• ACLU sues Pa. prisons over legal mail policy

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  Amy Worden, a DOC spokesperson, said that legal mail had been a source of contraband, including synthetic cannabinoids

• Mass. inmate accused of using relationship with nurse to smuggle drugs

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  Chad Connors, 42, and William Guillemette, 39, allegedly ran an operation to sell opioids to other inmates

• Texas COs find $17M of cocaine in box of donated fruit

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  After scouring all the boxes, agents found a total of 540 packages of coke

• Pa. DOC taking heat for revised mail policy at facilities

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  Legal advocates are promising a federal court challenge if the Pa. DOC does not revisit it's policy on handling legal mail

• 8 hospitalized after unknown substance found at RI prison

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  RI DOC spokesman J.R. Ventura said no one had touched the substance, but they had been in the vicinity

• Inmate charged after smuggling more than an ounce of heroin into jail

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  Investigators also found Suboxone strips in the man's cell

• Synthetic marijuana sickens Pa. CO

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  Officials believe the "clear, liquefied" drug entered the facility on paper

• Pa. DOC: Drugs sickening staff, inmates are entering through mail

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  A statewide lockdown started Wednesday is being used to train staff on how to handle suspected drugs

• Officials: 29 sickened at Ohio prison due to fentanyl-heroin mix

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  Nurses, COs who attempted to aid overdosing inmate were exposed to mixture described as "white powder"

• 24 inmates, staff at Ohio prison treated for possible overdose

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  Officials say substance that sickened 24 has not been identified

• Judges order carriers to 'brick' inmate cellphones

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  Judges in California and SC ordered cellphone carriers to disable nearly 200 contraband cellphones used by inmates

• Shakedown at La. prison after inmates die from possible drug overdose

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  The deaths raised concerns in the DOC about COs smuggling drugs inside prison walls, officials said

• Synthetic marijuana most prevalent drug in Fla. correctional facilities

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  Authorities are seeing an increase in both arrests and deaths related to the difficult-to-detect drugs

• Families of inmates protest Fla. DOC cuts to prison visitation

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  The families and advocates are planning to boycott the DOC’s program that’ll allow a private company to profit off of inmate video visitation

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