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Police seize contraband during prison search

May 29, 2012 News

 

 

During a search conducted at the Camp Street Prison last week, officials discovered numerous illegal items in the possession of inmates housed at the detention centre.
Kaieteur News understands that last Thursday, 15 cartons of cigarettes were found along with a kilogram of marijuana.
On the following day, Friday, another quantity of cigarettes was found when it was thrown over the fence by someone passing on the street. The parcel was reportedly stuck up in the barbed wire securing the prison perimeter. Along with that, four cell phones were also removed from the possession of prisoners.
On Sunday another search was conducted, and according to the source, more cell phones and cigarettes were discovered. It is unclear whether any charges will be pressed in the wake of the discoveries.
Director of Prisons, Dale Erskine, told Kaieteur News that regular searches would be conducted at the prison and most times prohibited articles would be recovered. He said that it was no surprise that illegal items were found in the prisons.
He continued that it was not alarming that ranks would have found the prohibited article stuck in the barb wire since that was a regular occurrence.
Erskine said persons on the street would regularly throw stuff over the wall. In some cases he said persons are seen and then arrested. He pointed to numerous persons facing the court for the criminal act of throwing prohibited articles beyond the prison wall.
What he did not say, but what everyone knows is that his prison officers are the people who fuel the trade in illegal stuff. They smuggle cell phones and cigarettes into the compound for a fee from the relatives of the detained person.

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