Apparently no good deed can go unpunished, not even the baking of cookies.

On Sunday, a dozen teens and a few adults spent the evening in the kitchen of First United Methodist Church in Pulaski, laboring to fill a large plastic bin with baked treats to send to the Wallens Ridge maximum security prison later this week.

So this group decided to make tons of cookies to send to prisoners and the reach of prisons even impacts this innocuous act:

The ingredients they use are limited by prison policy — no raisins or fruit, explained Hugh Kilgore, First United Methodist’s pastor, because inmates might use them to make liquor. And no sprinkles or glazes because it would make it harder for inspectors to tell that no drugs were among the desserts, Kilgore said.

Henderson said all 2,000 dozen cookies will be carefully checked by corrections staff. “Anything that goes into that prison goes through an X-ray,” he said.

I really don’t think that I need to provide further commentary about this other than to say “really?”