Inmates Try to Smuggle Drugs Via Coloring Book 11
Three inmates and two others are accused of trying to smuggle drugs in a coloring book into a New Jersey correctional facility. The drugs were dissolved in paint and pasted onto the pages. From the article: "Two of the pages were scrawled with crayon and said 'To Daddy,' in an attempt to dupe guards into thinking a child drew them. 'In my 38 years of law enforcement, I've never seen anything like this,' Cape May County Sheriff Gary Schaffer told the Press of Atlantic City Monday."
Re:Wait... what? (Score:4, Insightful)
Far too many DAs these days seem to no longer care at all about guilt or innocence, and certainly not appropriateness of punishment. They simply want to put as many as they can away for as long as they can guilty or not. The school zone thing is clearly an abuse of the law. IMHO that should itself be a crime.
The drug in question is intended to treat opiate addiction. Apparently a few manage to get some sort of high out of it, but nothing like heroine. It has an opiate blocker mixed in to make it self limiting. I would think if they're taking that much risk they'd want heroine. Perhaps they aren't getting adequate medical care (which would include addiction treatment) and so have to smuggle it in?