‘Like The Walking Dead’: Smuggled drugs fuel chaos inside Ohio prisons

By: Doug Livingston, The Marshall Project Cleveland, Laura A. Bischoff, USA TODAY Network Ohio

Outlets: Ohio Capital Journal

Published: April 3, 2026

Words: 1,749

Last Updated: 3 months, 4 weeks ago

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This story was produced in collaboration by The Marshall Project – Cleveland, The Columbus Dispatch, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Akron Beacon Journal and Canton Repository.

Jayson Murphy lit the speck of paper and held the smoke in his lungs as long as he could.

His cellmate, John Jenkins, got the drug-soaked scrap from another incarcerated man at Lebanon Correctional Institution. The paper — nicknamed K2 inside state prisons — was cut …

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