If there’s one thing corrections officers know, it’s that people try to smuggle all sorts of things into jail. But as one Lawrence County inmate just learned, sneaking in contraband usually ends with more charges—not less time behind bars. According to deputies, inmate Tab Johnson was changing into his jail jumpsuit when something fell out […]
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