New York Post
By Georgia Worrell
Published April 6, 2026, 5:30 a.m. ET
These books were written with a poison pen.
A string of inmate deaths at an infamous Chicago jail have been linked to a terrifying new drug trend — paper laced with a deadly drug and smuggled behind bars.
And the correction officers who have been fighting it say it threatens to be more lethal than the crack epidemic of the 1990s.
When guards at the Cook County Correctional Facility found 57-year-old inmate Thomas Diskin dead, slumped around his cell’s toilet in January 2023, investigators were left scratching their heads: There was no evidence of foul play or a fall that could’ve killed the prisoner.
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