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CIU: soaked paper sold online used as currency inside prisons; families routed Cash App payments
Summary
Corrections Investigative Unit staff told the committee they are seeing papers pre-soaked with chemical agents sold online and circulated inside facilities; CIU described a Cash App debt scheme in which incarcerated people ask family and friends to transfer money to outside accounts to pay debts tied to contraband.
Aaron Reichert, director of the Corrections Investigative Unit, told the committee that investigators have documented a wide-ranging scheme that turns tiny sheets of chemically soaked paper into a form of currency inside facilities.
“We've developed at this point that it's is related to STGs…They're utilizing this as a way to continue their criminal enterprise and make money while they're incarcerated,” Reichert said. He described the product’s street value: “One full sheet of paper could be valued at $10,000. One, eight and a half by 11.” He added that the product is commonly “sold by a square between 50 and $80 depending on how well the department is intercepting this stuff.”
How it gets into facilities:…
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