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Are there guns in Camp Street Prison?

Feb 21, 2011 News

– discovery of .32 round sparks fears

It may just be one bullet, but the discovery of a .32 round during a search of the Georgetown Prisons penitentiary has triggered memories among some law enforcement officers about the infamous February 2002 jailbreak, and fear that persons may have managed to smuggle at least one firearm into the jail.
The round was discovered on Saturday when police and prison officials carried out a routine search of the prison.
According to a source, the bullet was apparently discarded in a section of the ‘brick prison’ during the search. Investigators have so far been unable to link the find to any inmate.
“If a bullet was found in the prison, then it is possible that there are guns  inside,” one law enforcement source said.
The five convicts who escaped in 2002 used a smuggled firearm to shoot and badly injure a female prison warder. A male colleague was stabbed to death with a sharpened implement.
The law enforcement officials also found several sharpened implements during Saturday’s search, as well as a small quantity a marijuana.
Director of Prisons Dale Erskine told Kaieteur News that he was unaware of the find, since he was not on duty at the time.
In 2008, Camp Street inmate Edwin Niles was allegedly caught with seven rounds of .22 ammunition.
He was allegedly tortured after the discovery was made and died at the Georgetown Hospital some days later.

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