Drugs seized in prison
Published Friday January 9th, 2009
Institutional value estimated at $7,600
SPRINGHILL - Correctional officers have intercepted another drug shipment into the medium security prison in Springhill.
Drugs, including 44.2 grams of marijuana, 7.2 grams of ecstacy, 12 100 mg MS Contin pills and five grams of cocaine, were confiscated during a routine search of the prison's visiting area on Sunday.
The institutional value of the drugs is estimated at approximately $7,600.
Shannon Oickle, chief of administration at the prison, said the latest seizure if further proof that it's becoming more difficult to smuggle illegal items into the institution that houses 441 inmates.
Oickle said much of the credit has to go to staff who are being diligent when it comes to stopping the flow of drugs into the prison.
"It's really the good work of our staff in their searching. We have good tools in place in terms of our search plan, drug dogs and ion scan," she said.
In this latest case, the drugs were not found on a person, but in the visiting area.
"We do routine searches of the buildings as well as persons. That's part of our daily job here," she said.
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