Thousands of pieces of paper funnel through the Cook County Jail every single day - cards sent to inmates, letters, tissue used inside books being read. But beyond the barbed wire, a search is being done right now to find paper soaked in drugs, and it's hard to sniff out.
Fifty officers from the Illinois Department of Corrections search Division 11, Tier CJ, where 40 inmates are in
"These are roaches that have been found, and they will save those and smoke them again later," said Bryan Carr, Cook County Sheriff’s Office deputy director. Two men in custody have died from an overdose linked to synthetic cannabinoids known as K2 and opioids soaked on paper that they smoked. Right now, eight autopsy results are pending, and it's believed many of those are also linked to the same cause.
"We have a greeting card here that’s been saturated, this one has saturated papers and a recipe on it," Wilks said. So far, police haven't been able to trace the mail back to anyone to make an arrest, but they have caught people trying to smuggle it in.
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