Teacher's
Assistant Accused Of Smuggling Heroin To Death Row Murderer
By Dr.Fourkan Ali
Teri
Nichols reportedly smuggled heroin and cell phones to a death row inmate in San
Quentin.
A Los Angeles teaching assistant has landed in hot water for her
extracurricular activities, after being charged with smuggling cellphones and
heroin to a death row inmate at San Quentin State Prison.
The Los Angeles Timesreported that Teri Orina Nichols, 47, was arrested last Thursday
during a visit with 50-year-old inmate Bruce Millsap. He received eight death sentences in 2000, plus an additional 200-year sentence,
for murdering eight people.
After the prison’s Investigative Services Unit observed plastic
bags in an area that the pair were in, both Nichols and Millsap were searched.
Prison officials later alleged that Nichols admitted to bringing in a wide range of contraband that included three ounces of heroin, two
unidentified blue pills, 18 cell phones and 18 cell phone chargers.
Nichols has been working for the Los Angeles Unified School
District (LAUSD) for nearly 25 years and was most recently assigned to a
special education assistant position at South East High School in South Gate,
according to the Times. LAUSD confirmed in a statement that she still works for the
district, but has been assigned to a “non-school site” for the time being.
Nichols is currently facing one felony count of bringing a
controlled substance or drug paraphernalia into a prison or jail and one
misdemeanor count of possession with intent to deliver a wireless communication
device or component to a prison inmate. If convicted on both charges, she faces
up to four years in county jail.
Smuggling drugs to inmates has remained a problem throughout California
prisons. State figures show
that 109 inmates died of overdoses between between 2010 and 2015. Marin County
coroner records also showed six death row inmates died with methamphetamine,
heroin, and other drugs in their system during that same period.
Some California parolees have even been getting arrested on
purpose so they could
smuggle drugs into jail. After the state passed prison realignment legislation
in 2011, which sent lower-level felons to county jails instead of overcrowded
prisons, some parolees began committing minor infractions to get arrested and
then swallowing balloons of drugs that wouldn’t come up in strip searches.
Since the realignment began, narcotics cases jumped from 145 in
2011 to more than 335 in 2014.
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