Last week, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections filed criminal charges against two people related to the introduction of contraband via legal mail at several state correctional institutions.

Devin Walker, 34, and Dejah Schoolfield, 29, both from Philadelphia, are accused of using falsified legal credentials to send drug‑saturated paper into prisons.

Legal mail includes any mailing containing a PADOC-issued Attorney Control Number as well as a secondary Time Code on the outside of an envelope.

This investigation began in May 2024, when security staff at SCI Smithfield in Huntingdon County intercepted legal mail sent to an inmate who was already suspected of drug smuggling.

The envelope was marked with an ACN and Time Code that purported being sent from Thompson Law Office, P.C. It was one of seven parcels sent under the ACN to incarcerated individuals at SCI Smithfield, SCI Coal Township, SCI Fayette, SCI Forest, SCI Dallas, SCI Huntingdon, and SCI Mahanoy.

Investigators with the PADOC’s Bureau of Investigations and Intelligence worked with facility security staff to determine that the inmate was working Walker and Schoolfield to introduce contraband to state correctional institutions.

The investigation found that Schoolfield created a website purporting to represent an actual attorney in order to fraudulently obtain an ACN.

Six of the seven packages sent under the bogus ACN were seized, and the paper inside was revealed to be saturated with synthetic cannabis.

Multiple charges including forgery, identity theft, and contraband were filed against both individuals.