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• Overdoses in Calif. prisons up 113% in three years

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  The rise in overdoses comes despite the state pouring millions into technologies designed to block contraband at prison entry points

• Okla. prison system overwhelmed by smuggled cellphones

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  In 2016, correctional officers confiscated a record 9,766 cellphones from inmates

• As Pa. prisons ban tobacco, new informal currencies arise

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  Inmates may use more chips, ice cream tickets and ramen as forms of currency

• Pa. to ban tobacco in all state prisons

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  Starting July 1, all Pennsylvania prisons are banning tobacco products

• Okla. woman accused of using T-shirt gun to shoot contraband over prison fence

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  The woman was arrested not far from the prison

• SC inmates to get tablets for movies, phone calls

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  Officials hope the devices will curb the amount of contraband cell phones being smuggled into facilities

• 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

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