NEW YORK — A packet of drugs in a McDonald’s salad. Vacuum-sealed marijuana in a lunch box. Hennessy cognac in AriZona Iced Tea bottles and Ciroc coconut-flavored vodka in Poland Spring water bottles.
These are all examples of contraband smuggled into New York City jails in recent years — not by detainees or their visitors, but by correction officers.
Those cases and more documented in investigative reports and criminal charges brought against correction officers show that staff contribute significantly to the flow of drugs into city jails, says a former top Correction Department official and others who have investigated smuggling.
