How inmates are using the mail to get high at the Cook County Jail as overdose incidents more than d

A rare look inside the Cook County Jail as crews search cells for drugs making their way inside through the mail system.  

[Chuck-mmyp]

This is happening in all the prisons but no one talks about it so thank you for reporting this.

[xstorm__shadowx]

Tell me it’s corruption without telling me it’s corruption

[harka]

My county had this problem and completely went electronic only and fixed it.

[AceFurley]

Wow! they're just figuring this out now? this has been common knowledge (for jail staff and inmates) for well over 20+ years! they even replaced the regular paper stamps with ink stamps on all incoming inmate mail in the early 1990's (at least in Oregon) after learning that drugs (primarily just LSD at that time) were being saturated in paper.

[megacide]

This is why paper products including mail must be completely eliminated from prisons. Any communications and reading materials should be strictly electronically through cheap, bare-bones tablets or E-readers.

[michaelphillips]

"Inmates are using the MAIL to get high in the Cook County JAIL!"
Sounds like a Jesse Jackson speech.😂🤣

[boardupmike]

Are we supposed to care about criminals over dosing or dying ? In jail for breaking the law then breaking the law while in jail sneaking in drugs. Hard head makes a soft ass. This shouldn't even be on the news

[AB-dlhz]

If you've ever did time you would know that's only like 5% of how it's getting in

[Oir]

I’ve been to cook county one time. It’s too bad unfortunately people are overdosing but let’s just be real a good 75% of the people who work there are allowing that stuff to come in and they even get paid to let that stuff come in I’m sure they won’t really talk about that much

[miliantxgarvey]

...that doctor has such a relaxing, soothing voice. I can listen to her like an audiobook.

[stevelibby]

They could solve all of the prison issues if they wanted to.

[gwiz]

This has been the wave. The jails know. Years & years.

[franksullivan]

Don’t allow them to have any mail.Give them one phone call a week.This is incarcerations not Club Med.

[avidreaderredxx]

I thought all mail was screened anyway so can they require email format that is printed on site or that any mail is transcribed onto new “clean” paper?

[davidfrank]

Since they open all the mail why not just make a copy of the original letter? That way they are only getting paper that the correction center is using.

[johnnobody]

I was in a minimum security prison in 1982. Those dotted i's helped me pass a lot of time away while there. Sometimes we would get lucky and were able to sneak a few fresh shrooms in from the fields. 32 man cells and at least half were getting high every night.

[SladeFuqua]

the title should read the Cook County government fails to keep drugs out of jail...

[GirlGotGrit]

I did my internship at Cook County Jail ( PACE ) ( Program Activity Correction Education ) 28 years ago. The paper dotting drug issue was an issue 30 plus years ago! Why now is this drug issue amongst all the other drugs entering the jail system finally coming to light why not 30 years ago? Come on Cook County Jail "Y'ALL CAN DO BETTER"!

[JoeyBeez]

They make it sound like this is a bad thing. Let more in!

[TheAmericanPlug]

Fighting the war on drugs is a losing battle when you have ppl in this country that vote overwhelmingly for politicians that support open borders and illegal immigration!