Pointing to drug overdoses inside the Cook County Jail, Sheriff Tom Dart’s office says it has banned jail visitors from bringing in paper — including documents routinely carried by lawyers to detainees they represent.
The jail, which houses about 5,560 detainees, is, like other jails and prisons across the country, contending with an influx of paper soaked with illegal narcotics, bug killer and even rat poison, according to Dart’s office, which declined to say how many overdoses have been tied to deadly paper.
