
Five correctional officers (COs) in Connecticut were hospitalized after being exposed to illegal narcotics at work last month. The COs began experiencing symptoms after administering Narcan to an inmate who had overdosed.
CO Rob Beamon is the president of AFSCME Local 391 (Council 4). The local represents COs at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, the state’s largest prison, where the incident occurred on June 28.
He said drug smuggling is making corrections jobs more dangerous. And that’s a problem happening nationwide.
“It makes the prison population less safe, it makes the officers less safe,” Beamon told NBC Connecticut. “Correctional environments are supposed to be controlled environments.”