On Friday night while sorting mail in the Bronx, the officer's hands went numb despite wearing gloves.
Workers administered Narcan, a drug used to help reverse an overdose, and sent her to the hospital. She was treated and released.
Officers have confiscated everything from children's drawings to love letters, to entire books sent to the jail laced with the synthetic opioid."Books are for reading, not for being laced with fentanyl," said Commissioner Louis Molina. "We are exploring all measures to keep fentanyl and all drugs out of our facilities," he said.
Some city commissioners, including the chair of the city's criminal justice committee, are against the plan. Rivera believes there should be a universal way of physically scanning visitors and workers who enter jail buildings."People that are entering the island, there is discretion as to who gets scanned and who is looked at in terms of bringing in contraband and so if there is a universal system for scanning, we could really get to the root of the problem," said Rivera.
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