Sheriff Adam King, during a meeting of the Johnson County Commissioners Court, made requests to block the entry of K2 into the Johnson County Jail. Commissioners granted the request.
“K2 in the jail is getting out of hand,” King said. “And we want to shut it down.”
The synthetic drug, similar to marijuana, can be dissolved into a liquid, King said.
“What people do is they write a letter, which they soak the paper in the dissolved K2 then dry out and that makes it very hard for us to detect when those letters come into the jail,” King said.
The solution, King said, lies in a recently approved inmate education program, which is funded through jail commissary sales and a corporate partner rather than taxpayer dollars.