IMAGES FROM OKLAHOMA DOC’s DRUG FINDS
Oklahoma Department of Corrections digitized mail in September 2024 to under the false context of trying to “prevent drugs coming into the prison”. It really only restricts communication, charging around 20,000 people locked up 25¢ – $1 for printed copies of their mail. ODOC’s website celebrates this burden, “Great news! For a small fee, inmates can request a physical copy of their mail through their trust funds. Black and white copies on regular paper are 25¢ each and color photos on photo-quality paper are $1 each.”
https://oklahoma.gov/doc/offender-info/digital-mail.html#accordion-1e00587dbf-item-49a8f755ba
While they have digitized mail, their own records show the overwhelming majority of drugs coming in through other channels. Bragging how they stopped 83 individuals, including 14 staff members, from smuggling in 393 pounds of drugs, proving ending physical mail will not end drug usage in US prisons, it will only change who makes more money bringing it in.
“In 2025, ODOC confiscated:
- Methamphetamine: 48 pounds – estimated prison value $2,177,243
- Marijuana: 261 pounds – estimated prison value $1,657,427
- THC wax: 50 pounds – estimated prison value $317,515
- Fentanyl: 7 pounds – estimated prison value $1,905,090
- Tobacco: 1,614 pounds – estimated prison value $483,185
- K2 (synthetic cannabinoids): 27 pounds – estimated prison value $2,755,573 (Depending on paper type, this equals roughly 500 to 2,700 sheets, with 93 dosage units per letter-sized sheet.)
- Cell phones: 6,715 devices – estimated prison value $9,401,000
- Improvised weapons: 3,478 items
- Total seized value: $18,697,033”
While ODOC claims 42 visitors were caught smuggling in contraband, its important to note the visitors are under complete privacy violations. Subject to phone, email, mail, and gps surveillance. Are put in databases connecting them to everyone who they have been in contact with and their contacts. Are scrutinized through background checks, are violated, patted down, strip and cavity searched, cars and phones searched. And are recorded and watched during visitation, while guards and prison staff move freely in and out the prison.
https://oklahoma.gov/doc/newsroom/2026/odoc-seizes-millions-in-contraband-during-2025.html
In the BOP around 50 pounds of methamphetamine have been confiscated within the past year. With 260 BOP staff investigated. In one find, FCC Hazelton found 5 ounces of THC wax and 300 suboxone strips, and 14 cell phones in incoming supply shipments. And at FCI Fort Dix a drone dropped a 46 pound bag filled with “contraband”. While not all contraband are illegal drugs, but sometimes items people are having trouble getting inside the prison. In 2019 a drone drop at Fort Dix included contraband of tobacco, weight loss supplements, and eyeglasses.
https://www.bop.gov/news/20260217-growing-threat-of-contraband-in-the-bureau-of-prisons.jsp
In 4 years, between 2019 – 2022 California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation found 96.6 pounds of heroin, 297.8 pounds of marijuana, 210.6 pounds of methamphetamines. 26 guards and other staff have been caught smuggling in this contraband.
On 9/7/25 Kentucky DOC Internal Affairs stopped guards Skaggs and Caudill as they entered the prison and found them in possession of 55.5 grams of crystal meth and 800 strips of suboxone. CO Skaggs “admitted to meeting inmates’ family members and introducing dangerous contraband inside the institution. Officer Skaggs then signed a resignation form and was escorted to his personal vehicle, where he exited state grounds.” And while he was just escorted to his car for smuggling drugs in, people locked inside are getting tased and forced to drink urine for failing drug tests.
https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article314949786.html
DRUGS WON”T STOP COMING IN BECAUSE GUARDS MAKE MAJOR PROFITS OFF OF SMUGGLING DRUGS INTO PRISONS, JAILS, and DETENTION CENTERS. WHILE BLAMING IT ALL ON THE MAIL
On 9/14/24 CO Samuel Brandon Smith at FCC Coleman has pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of a bribe by a public official and one count of providing contraband to a federal prisoner. Smith got caught smuggling 668.1 grams of marijuana and other substances containing approximately 90 grams of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) hidden under his protective vest. Records show him making $43,901 getting things in without notice.
CO Angela Crosland was sentenced in May of 2025 for smuggling suboxone, methamphetamine, K-20-soaked paper, marijuana and food into FCI Willimasburg. Her cashapp showed found she had made nearly $57,000.
Three guards plead guilty in 2024 at MCC in NY smuggling in oxycodone, alprazolam, Suboxone, marijuana, and synthetic cannabinoids. One of the CO’s Perry Joyner made $80,000 from 2018 – 2019.
Arrested 1/3/25 CO Lewis a counselor at Lewis Prison in Arizona was arrested for bringing drugs in for $5,000 a trip. Sneaking drugs in with styrofoam cups, by placing them outside of body scanners as he went through. He would then have incarcerated people package heroin and other drugs in his office. Upon his arrest $83,000 worth of drugs that were smuggled into Lewis Prison were seized by other prison staff.
CORRUPTION IN THE COLONIZER COURTS
In 2022 CO Jackson in Michigan DOC was pulled over on his way to work was pulled over and arrested on his way to bring marijuana, cocaine, and Suboxone into St. Louis CF. “Jackson was sentenced by Midland County Circuit Court Judge Stephen Carras. Carras handled the case because all Saginaw County judges recused themselves. Jackson’s brother is a Saginaw County Circuit Court judge.” Though he was facing 13 felonies, he only received 300 days probation.