The K2 crisis in prisons has made me realize it is not realistic to eradicate all illegal drug usage behind bars. Instead, we ...
His first hit of K2 was offered up as a birthday present, “a way to escape, to leave the monotonous state I found myself in,” Iran Diaz wrote in a letter to Correction Commissioner Shawn Jenkins.
Charles Briley smoked K2 at Arkansas' Cummins Unit prison, then returned to his bunk and fell asleep. He never woke up.
Ten days ago an inmate inside Cummins prison was found dead in his bed. The Arkansas State Police is investigating but a source inside the prison tells Channel Seven News that the man's death was ...
DRUGS IN PRISON: Staff smuggles in K2, according to multiple sources. Credit: Brian Chilson K2, otherwise known as synthetic marijuana or spice, is believed to be linked to multiple deaths in Arkansas ...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- All 25 of Pennsylvania's state prisons remain on lockdown as they try to get a handle on synthetic drugs. Specifically, something called K2, which is believed to have sickened ...
In November, KATV brought you a special report about inmates dying inside Arkansas prisons after smoking the synthetic drug K2. Since we started looking at the problem back in July, 34 people in state ...
All 25 of Pennsylvania’s state prisons are indefinitely on lockdown after nearly 30 employees became ill following exposure to an mysterious narcotic substance in the last month, officials said. But ...
Even more inmate deaths have been connected to K2, also called synthetic marijuana, according to Jason Pederson of KATV, who is tweeting out details this morning. His longer report will be aired on ...
Keeping contraband from prison inmates is probably one of those impossible goals. No matter how hard prison officials try, some guards or employees will be tempted by bribes to deliver cell phones or ...
A Massachusetts state employee is accused of conspiring with an inmate to distribute drugs in a federal prison. Tasha Hammock, 43, who works for the state Department of Environmental Protection and ...
NORRISTOWN >> A former Pottstown merchant convicted of selling synthetic marijuana from his downtown convenience store, but who had been free on bail during an appeal, was sent back to prison by a ...