This isn't completely about marijuana, but part of it is.. the headline just cracked me up Police: Woman tried to use tampon to smuggle weapon \t\t\t \t\t \t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\tBy DON LEHMAN dlehman@poststar.com \t\t\tMonday, January 8, 2007 11:30 PM EST \t\t \t\t \t\t\t \t\t\tFORT ANN -- A Connecticut woman's apparent attempt to smuggle drugs and a weapon to her husband in Great Meadow Correctional Facility over the weekend raised some eyebrows. State Police said the woman put 2.5 grams of heroin, some unidentified pills and a scalpel inside a tampon -- which she inserted into her body and tried to sneak, with the contraband, into the maximum-security prison Saturday morning. Authorities said the smuggling attempt was one of the more unusual in the never-ending battle to try to keep drugs and weapons out of jails and prisons. Charged with felony counts of of promoting prison contraband, conspiracy and misdemeanor criminal possession of a controlled substance was Cassandra Jones, 42, of Rocky Hill, Conn., authorities said. Corrections officers at the prison had received a tip Jones might be trying to bring drugs and a weapon into the prison. With the assistance of State Police and the Washington County district attorney's office, they convinced her to turn over the evidence, officials said. \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\tWashington County District Attorney Kevin Kortright, who has prosecuted hundreds of prison contraband cases, said he's seen everything from snack cakes to typewriters used by visitors to try to secrete drugs, weapons and other contraband. A couple of years ago, a visitor at Great Meadow was caught with Devil Dogs snack cakes in which the cream had been removed and replaced with marijuana. In 2005, a typewriter brought in to a prisoner was used to carry a cell phone into the facility, he said. At a state prison in another part of the state, Kortright said, he heard of a case in which a visitor hollowed out a banana, replaced it with drugs and resealed the peel. "We've seen them try some pretty ingenious things," he said. Officials said it's not just ignorant friends and relatives being enlisted by inmates. \t\t\t \t\t\tJones is a third-grade teacher. Last year, a hospital administrator was caught trying to smuggle marijuana into an inmate at Great Meadow, authorities said.
At a prison near me (well kind of near me, like 2 hours away) they had the most elaborate drug smugling operation Ive ever heard. The prisoners could request books to read, and since there wasnt a library in the prison, they would checkout the books from the local library. A few of the prisoners girlfriends and friends would check out extremely obscure books that no one would ever think about reading, carefully slice the bindings, put razor blades, heroin, coke, and all that good shit in the bindings, then reseal the books, and return them to the library. Theyd then visit their boyfriend/friend in prison and tell them which books to request. The prison would check the books out from the library without inspecting them, and give them to the prisoners. Apparently this went on for years before they started wondering why the same prisoners kept checking out books with extremely odd subject matter, and finally caught on.