NYC Correctional Officer Exposed to Fentanyl While Checking Prisoners’ Mail: Union
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According to the Corrections Officers Benevolent Association, a New York City Correctional Officer needed narcanum after receiving a letter from an inmate laced with fentanyl.
The union said an employee at the Vernon S. Bain Correctional Center, a prison barge in the Bronx, was checking mail when her hands went numb despite wearing multiple layers of gloves.
She went to a clinic where she received Narcan, which is used to treat opioid overdoses.
“For more than two years, we have been sounding the alarm about a dangerous fentanyl epidemic that has swept through our prisons through inmate mail, which often contains fentanyl-soaked paper,” COBA President Benny Boshio said.
Boschio said the officer is expected to make a full recovery.
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