A former correctional officer, a former inmate at a South Carolina prison and the ex-inmate's brother have been arrested and charged with running a widespread operation to smuggle drugs into over a dozen state prisons.

The trio allegedly used packages "presented as containing books" to smuggle hundreds of strips containing synthetic cannabinoids and Suboxone into 14 prisons in the state, according to arrest warrants. The packages were dropped off at the Woodruff Post Office and mailed to the various prisons between March and June 2025, officials said.

The former correctional officer was identified by the South Carolina Department of Corrections as Shataysha Quneeka Lewis, 36. Lewis left her job at South Carolina's Evans Correctional Institution in 2019, the department said. She was charg

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