Heroin in prison...
Nobody said that there was no heroin in the prisons I have been in. What I was saying was that there was only garbage that I would not put in my body if you paid me. Almost all heroin in american prisons is so highly adulterated /diluted with questionable substances that you are risking your life each and every time you do some. I remember my visit to Rikers in 97. The first day in my dorm [4 upper] a group of Puerto Ricans were getting off in the bath room and of course everyone and their brother uses the same rig [another life decision]. Immediately, the youngest keeled over and died. There was no shake down as one would expect, just a bunch of tough words from the regualr 2nd shift co who said that if we wanted him to ignore our shooting up in the bathrooms, we were going to have to stop shanking eachother and causing him grief from the white shirts.
In Rikers, ever since I have strated going there anyway [first time was 1979 in C76 last time was 2002 in C95], it is almost always adulterated with Dalmane, the sleep aid. Talk about garbage...the last time I was in in 2002 it was 30 dollars [the equivalent of course since Rikers does not allow actual money, although it is smuggled in] a very impure bag weighing about 30 mgs.
In NJ it is also garbage. Outside of the state system it is almost non-existent. In the state system, at least in Annandale where I did my 3 years, it was 40 bucks a bag [again, the equivalent]. The bags are even worse than NY.
Now in Israel it was a different story. I was able to consistently get very pure Lebanese heroin for 15 US a gram! You can even get syringes cherap and clean. That was in the 80s though and I really have no idea if it has changed though.