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 Green_T
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 Canada: Man fumbles drug plot 
#9671056 - 01/24/09 03:33 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Where there is a will, there is a way. Where there is a demand, there will be a supply. This news article shows one of the many unique ways to get drugs into prison, where they are worth 10x as much as they are on the street. If we can't keep drugs out of our prisons, how can we keep them out of our streets? (hint: we can't)
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Source: The Whig Standard(Mirror)
Man fumbles drug plot
Smuggler tosses drug-filled football over prison wall
Posted By ROB TRIPP, WHIG-STANDARD POLICE REPORTER
1/23/2009
It must have been a Hail-mary Jane play.
A drug smuggler threw a football packed with more than $57,000 worth of marijuana and other drugs over the wall at Collins Bay Institution, a federal prison in Kingston.
The attempt to toss dope to convicts at the medium-security prison was foiled early Monday morning by alert staff at a neighbouring prison who noticed a man lurking around the 10-metre tall stone wall of Collins Bay. Staff saw the man on a video surveillance monitor.
The Frontenac institution staff followed the man and called police. Officers arrested the suspect and found the football in an outside recreation area of the Collins Bay compound, where inmates could have retrieved it.
The ball had been cut open and filled with 31 packages, including 14 parcels that contained 371 grams of pot, the Whig-Standard learned. The football was re-sewn after it was loaded with drugs.
Corrections Canada issued a news release about the incident yesterday after inquiries from the newspaper, but did not respond to requests for an interview.
According to the release, prison authorities have not yet identified any inmates involved in the smuggling scheme.
The incident highlights a serious problem with security at medium-and maximum-security prisons, says the union representing prison security staff.
"Throw-overs are a major problem for us," Jason Godin, regional president of the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers said.
It is the third time in the past 12 months that staff have foiled a toss-over-the-wall smuggling plot at Collins Bay.
Godin said this incident was interrupted by observant staff, but the problem persists because none of the four guard towers at the corners of the perimeter wall of Collins Bay are staffed during the overnight shift from 11 p. m. to 7 a. m.
"Most of our towers aren't staffed," he said, making it virtually impossible to stop so-called throw-overs unless staff watching video monitors happen to notice an incident while it's happening.
During the overnight shift, the only perimeter security at the prison is a lone officer patrolling outside the wall in a vehicle.
The walls of the institution are fitted with motion detectors and cameras.
Godin said government cutbacks have eroded staffing levels to the point that prison bosses can't fill the elevated observation towers that overlook prison compounds.
Only one observation tower is staffed on the overnight shift at maximum-security Millhaven Institution, a prison that holds some of the region's toughest and most dangerous convicts.
At maximum-security Kingston Penitentiary, four guard towers are staffed around the clock, a change made after an escape from the prison on May 7, 1999, when Tyrone Conn scaled the east wall at 3 a. m.
A guard tower at the southeast corner that overlooked the wall was empty at the time, a practice that had been criticized by union leaders for years.
Immediately after Conn's escape, the first at KP in roughly 40 years, guards were put back in the southeast tower.
Godin said the union is hopeful that Ottawa will soon provide more cash to allow prisons to staff more guard towers.
Security staff in towers are armed with rifles. Their job is to break up riots or assaults, prevent escapes and watch for smuggling.
In May last year, prison staff saw a man toss a package that contained half a pound of marijuana over the east wall of Collins Bay.
The drugs were intercepted but the thrower escaped.
On July 6 last year, two men were caught in the middle of the afternoon near the east wall of Kingston Penitentiary with a package that held $44,000 worth of marijuana, methamphetamine, tobacco and rolling papers.
They planned to throw it over the wall so it would land in an exercise yard where convicts could retrieve it. They were arrested by police before they could heave the package.
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 Re: Canada: Man fumbles drug plot [Re: Green_T]
#9671152 - 01/24/09 03:51 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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That's a good one and that's a lot of weed to get into a football, I didn't think you could fit that much in there.
What you think happened to the bud? I bet those stoner ass Canadian cops smoked it and got ripped. None of that mexican brick weed that looks like dirt.
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Re: Canada: Man fumbles drug plot [Re: Green_T]
#9671259 - 01/24/09 04:08 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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how about letting inmates get high instead of surrounding them with more rifles?
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I bet you anything you like the only reason this drug deal got exposed was because the guards weren't making a cut on it. That's the only way to get drugs into a prison.
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Re: Canada: Man fumbles drug plot [Re: hpi]
#9671742 - 01/24/09 05:50 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
hpi said:
That's a good one and that's a lot of weed to get into a football, I didn't think you could fit that much in there.
What you think happened to the bud? I bet those stoner ass Canadian cops smoked it and got ripped. None of that mexican brick weed that looks like dirt.
Probably redistributed to the guards who then sold it to the dealers in the prison who then spread it around everyone gets a cut with the markup only going higher as the ammounts of herb gets smaller?
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Quote:
Visionary Tools said:
I bet you anything you like the only reason this drug deal got exposed was because the guards weren't making a cut on it. That's the only way to get drugs into a prison.
So true, but I hate how they make you give them most of the profit 
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Re: Canada: Man fumbles drug plot [Re: neopet nub]
#9671800 - 01/24/09 06:06 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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My mom lives in Kingston, I was around the jail last summer actually, pretty interesting to hear
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Re: Canada: Man fumbles drug plot [Re: sh4d0ws]
#9673001 - 01/24/09 10:05 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Model rockets and RC planes, I saw one RC plane that had a cargo hold to make a drop or put in a camera so just the click of an RC button and bombs away.
That would be cool. Ya guards suck, I heard from a kid that went to prison of a dude who OD'd on smack in there.......the guard brought it in.
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Yeah?
"Most of our towers aren't staffed," he said, making it virtually impossible to stop so-called throw-overs unless staff watching video monitors happen to notice an incident while it's happening.
During the overnight shift, the only perimeter security at the prison is a lone officer patrolling outside the wall in a vehicle"
Seems like it'd be pretty easy to get anything into that prison without any guards in on it.
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Re: Canada: Man fumbles drug plot [Re: hpi]
#9674263 - 01/25/09 03:19 AM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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hpi said:
That's a good one and that's a lot of weed to get into a football, I didn't think you could fit that much in there.
You can't really. I think the worth is greatly exaggerated. Yellow journalism sells more papers.
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