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| Six inmates high on LSD unleash a day of chaos in Faribault |
| By startribune.com - PAUL McENROE |
| Published: 01/17/2012 |
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MN -- A Christmas Eve incident involving LSD use by inmates at the state prison in Faribault turned chaotic when six prisoners suffered violent drug reactions that sent two to the hospital by ambulance and four to the Twin Cities by medical helicopter. The six inmates had attended a Narcotics Anonymous meeting that morning and passed the synthetic drug among themselves, according to corrections reports and interviews with authorities. Attempted drug smuggling is a near-daily event at Minnesota prisons, but authorities said the December incident was unusual for the violent reactions the drug touched off and the volatile 10-hour sequence of events that followed. High-ranking corrections officials would not characterize the significance of the incident, but they acknowledged that prison guards were exposed to a sequence of medical emergencies and physical confrontations with violent, hallucinating prisoners. "Our first mission in running a prison is protecting the safety of the staff and the inmates," Assistant Commissioner David Crist said in an interview. "Smuggling drugs into prisons has been going on forever, and we are constantly conducting exercises to stay on top of it.'' The state Department of Corrections is investigating how the drug was smuggled past guards and how widely it might have been distributed. A former inmate is suspected of smuggling the LSD, contained on small pieces of absorbent paper, into the prison, authorities said. No arrests have been made. Read More. |
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