The South Carolina Department of Corrections announced on Friday that it has made three arrests tied to what officials described as a widespread operation aimed at bringing drugs into state prisons.

According to warrants, the process involved mailing books to inmates who had pages soaked with drugs and targeted several inmates across 14 prisons. The packages were all mailed from the Woodruff Post Office and contained suboxone and synthetic marijuana, also known as K2.

On Friday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections Inspector General released the arrest warrants for the three suspects. The first arrest involved 36-year-old Shataysha Quneeka Lewis of Woodruff, who was a corrections officer at Evans Correctional Institution until her departure in 2019. A warrant issued on Aug. 20 al

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