Drugs In Hawaii Prisons: ‘We Are Swimming In Spice, And Nobody Cares’ …Inmates and staff say use of synthetic cannabinoids in the state’s largest prison is rampant. The drugs have caused two deaths.
Staff and inmates at the state’s largest prison say prisoners there have easy access to a dangerous synthetic drug known as “spice” that has already caused the deaths of two inmates.
Spice is also being blamed for an incident last fall in which seven prisoners became unconscious and had to be rushed to local hospitals.
Inmates at Halawa Correctional Facility eat paper that has been treated with the chemical, or they burn the paper and inhale the smoke to get high, according to corrections officials. Staff report they often smell smoke in the prison modules that they attribute to inmates who are using the drug.
