Massachusetts prisons seized $9M worth of K2 this year, but as synthetic drugs make it behind bars, questions grow about ...

In February, an advocacy group warned the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) that there was a severe problem with synthetic marijuana inside a federal women's prison in Minnesota. Women were vomiting, ...

South Dakota’s had a particularly challenging year. The state has logged eight suspected or confirmed overdose deaths in 2025 ...

A prison worker at Westville Correctional Facility is accused of trying to smuggle synthetic marijuana cigarettes into the prison by hiding the contraband in her wig. Elizabeth Malstaff, 62, is ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The owner of a now-closed Minnesota head shop was sentenced to 17½ years in prison Thursday for selling synthetic drugs in a case that prosecutors said should remove any doubts that ...

The synthetic drug K2/Spice is illegal and dangerous, and it is being used at the Allegheny County Jail as well as other jails across the country. A person can get “high” from the drug, but the drug ...

Difficult-to-detect synthetic drugs smuggled into Nevada’s prison system through ink on mailed correspondence has caused a substantial increase of overdoses among the inmate population, according to ...