A leaked internal memo posted on X shows Correctional Service Canada (CSC) is rolling out a new "harm reduction" supply program in federal prisons that includes paper straws for snorting drugs, foil for smoking them, and rapid test strips to check for fentanyl, benzodiazepines and xylazine — all handed directly to inmates by Health Services staff.

The internal FAQ document, dated April 2026 and set to take effect Monday, September 21, lays out exactly what the Liberal government is now supplying behind bars:

• Paper straws, described as "biodegradable" and intended for "inhaling substances in powdered form or inhaling vapour from heated substances"
• Foil, specifically manufactured "for smoking substances" and reportedly thicker than the ordinary household kind
• Drug-testing strips for fentanyl, benzodiazepines and xylazine, so inmates can check the potency of their illegal drugs before using them

According to the memo, inmates are allowed to keep up to three pieces of foil, two paper straws, and two of each type of drug-testing strip in their cells at any time and handwritten notes on the document suggest these limits aren't even strictly enforced, with one annotation reading "not one in one out just garbage."

🚨🚨Hey Michelle,
Please see the attached kits that will be used to snort drugs and test their quality being issued at jails across Canada. 🚨🚨

Remember when you used to go to jail for doing and dealing drugs.

Yea I miss that. pic.twitter.com/0a0ECgh1iG

— Michelle Leahy Ferreri (@mferreriptbokaw) September 22, 2026

CSC confirmed to Rebel News that the leaked document posted on X is authentic and "was developed by CSC to provide information to all employees regarding the expansion of harm reduction products."

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Former Conservative MP Michelle Leahy Ferreri posted the documents originally to X Tuesday evening and commented on the hypocrisy shown: “Remember when you used to go to jail for doing and dealing drugs. Yeah I miss that,” she wrote.

The memo makes clear that staff will not face any obligation to intervene.

Question six of the FAQ states plainly that if these supplies are found on an inmate or in a cell, they are to be treated as "authorized health materials" — just like bleach, condoms, and dental dams — and are not to result in any "informal or formal resolution," meaning no charges, no discipline, unless the gear happens to be sitting next to illicit drugs themselves.

The document also confirms drug testing strips are for inmate use only — CSC states outright that "staff are not required to assist inmates to test substances," meaning the government is effectively providing quality control for illegal drugs on the taxpayer's dime, without lifting a finger to stop the use itself.

Handwritten notes scrawled on the leaked pages by what appears to be a CSC staffer raise even more questions, including that training for nurses on this program won't begin until October, a month after the policy is already set to be in effect.

CSC frames all of this as a response to "increased inhalation, smoking, and snorting of substances among federal inmates," and insists the goal is to reduce overdoses and the spread of infectious disease. Ottawa has been expanding "harm reduction" programming in federal prisons for years, including a needle exchange program first launched in 2018.

The CSC said in response to Rebel News that these measures are "harm reduction interventions" and are "widely recognized as cost-effective because they help prevent the transmission of infectious diseases such as HIV and Hepatitis C."

The federal service added that the practice reduces "the need for significantly more expensive medical treatment and long-term health-care costs associated with these conditions."