GOUVERNEUR -- Staff discovered drugs saturated on pieces of paper and Suboxone in inmate packages mailed to Gouverneur prison over two weeks in February.

That’s according to a Monday, March 8 news release from NYSCOPBA, the union representing state correctional officers.

The union says officers seized drugs on 10 different occasions at the medium security correctional facility from February 12 to March 1.

In four of the seizures, officers recovered sheets of paper mailed to inmates that had been saturated in some type of unknown drug. In previous seizures, synthetic marijuana, commonly known as K2, has been detected saturated on sheets of paper, NYSCOPBA said.

The other seizures were Suboxone strips that were recovered from an assortment of packages. In one seizure, 100 strips of Suboxone were recovered from a box of instant rice. In another seizure, officers recovered Suboxone strips wrapped in cellophane and hidden in the cuffs of sweat pants, NYSCOBPA alleges.