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Inmate overdoses lead to SWAT team search of prison
By turnto10.com
Published: 05/27/2016

A SWAT team comprised of correctional officers searched for contraband at the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston after two inmates overdosed this past week.

State Department of Corrections spokesman J.R. Ventura tells The Providence Journal that the Correctional Emergency Response Team and drug-sniffing canines didn't find any contraband in their Thursday search of the minimum-security facility.

The first inmate overdosed on May 18, with the second following suit on Wednesday. Ventura says both men were treated with Narcan and were hospitalized. They have since recuperated and are now back in general population.

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