Prison officials are struggling to keep out drug-soaked paper — nicknamed K2 inside state prisons — that’s cut from a sheet soaked in unpredictably potent synthetic chemicals. It’s fueling a multimillion-dollar black market economy that stokes chaos, violence and death.
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The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. Through a partnership with Signal Cleveland, The Marshall Project is weaving more resident voices into its reporting and building an understanding about how the justice system works — and doesn’t work — in Cleveland.
