(TEUTOPOLIS) State Representative Adam Niemerg sent a letter to Governor J.B. Pritzker urging him to take immediate action by directing the Department of Corrections to stop the flow of illegal drugs into Illinois prisons by way of the mail. After touring the two facilities near Robinson & in Lawrence County, the 102nd District lawmaker requested that copy machines be purchased to copy the drug-laced paper mail onto clean paper to give the inmates and either destroy or return the original copies. At least 88 incident reports from 16 different Illinois prisons have occurred in the past few months, mostly attributed to synthetic cannabis. The Governor’s Office has so far issued no response to the letter.
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