The Worth Of Paper In Prison

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The everyday things we take for granted become vital when we're deprived of them. Prisoners, powerless, have fought for their right to paper. The paper object—book, magazine, letter, paperwork and usable trash—is socially crucial not only for what it is, but what it can become. … A New York Times report found that the narcotic Suboxone was getting into Maine, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania prisons in the crevices of envelopes and smudged behind stamps. The pill is crushed and then mixed into a paste. In one instance, it was found spread across the page of a child’s coloring book, its yellow stain colored over with crayon. Family and friends collaborate in crime as "paper absorbs drugs like a lover’s perfume of earlier centuries," as prison social worker Edward Matthews put it.