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Contraband: Suboxone hidden in mail

With Father’s Day right around the corner, you may notice an influx of cards coming through your facility. That can serve as a potential hazard as contraband can enter your prison this way.

Suboxone, a drug used as a treatment for opiate addiction can sometimes be found hidden in otherwise innocent-looking mail.

Corrections1 posted a recent article that said “innovative smugglers have turned crushed Suboxone pills into a paste and spread it under stamps or over children’s artwork, including pages from a princess coloring book found in a New Jersey jail.”

This particular contraband sent in by a Corrections1 member was found during a mail search at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque, N.M. The clear plastic pouch was full of ground suboxone sealed in between the flaps of a homemade card.

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Have you found interesting contraband in your facility? Email us your pictures and stories and we’ll share this valuable information with the Corrections1 community.

These images and videos of illegal inmate contraband have come directly from Corrections1 members, readers and expert contributors. As officers in the field, Corrections1 members have the greatest insight into the contraband and illegal tactics used by inmates to subvert the security of our nation’s vital corrections institutions. By submitting these images and videos of paraphernalia, Corrections1 members share potentially life-saving information with their brothers and sisters.

See links to more photos like this at our Corrections Contraband page. If you have a contraband photo or video you would like to add to our database, please email us at editor@correctionsone.com.