At the start of the article there is this statement:

"There were at least nine drug-related deaths"

I can't wrap my head around this, I know that smuggling drugs into jails is relatively common practice in the US but it seems like we have just normalised this when we shouldn't have. A jail is a facility that the government has complete control over and even more relaxed restrictions on what they can subject people to, so how does this happen? Aren't their CCTV cameras everywhere? Microphones? Surely these incidents should be so well tracked and then some sort plan formed to prevent this, or if the guards are corrupt and enabling this maximal punishment.

Don't even get me started on allowing prisoners to control the food supply of other prisoners... just seems like such an obviously bad idea.