Prison visitor Rachal Dollard has been charged with second-degree murder after, according to authorities, her kiss and the resulting oral exchange of a container of meth with a Tennessee prisoner led to his overdose death.
In February, Ms. Dollard passed a balloon pellet containing a half-ounce of methamphetamine to inmate Joshua Brown through a kiss. Brown swallowed the pellet, and at some point absorbed the pellet’s contents.
Brown would die of an overdose at a hospital near the Turney Center Industrial Complex where he had been held. He had been serving a drug-related sentence and was due for release in 2029.