Guards seize nearly $950K in drugs, contraband at Dorchester prison in one day

Nearly $950,000 successful contraband was seized astatine Dorchester Penitentiary in 1 day.

Staff discovered a azygous bundle containing drugs and different unauthorized items connected the perimeter of the medium-security portion Tuesday, Correctional Service of Canada announced Friday.

The items included methamphetamine, ecstasy, a potent marijuana derivative known as shatter, marijuana, tobacco, nicotines patches and cellphones, according to a quality release.

The full estimated organization worth of these items is $941,502, Sophia Doiron, communications advisor for Correctional Service of Canada regional headquarters, Atlantic, said successful a statement, crediting the "vigilance of staff."

She could not instantly beryllium reached to remark astir however antithetic a seizure of this size is.

Police person been notified and the prison is investigating, Doiron said.

Nearly 700 inmates

Dorchester is a multi-level information situation for men located successful the colony of Dorchester, betwixt Sackville and Memramcook, successful southeastern New Brunswick.

The medium-security unit, which has a dome design, has a rated capableness of 397 inmates, portion the minimum-security portion has a residential plan and is rated for 302 inmates.

The Correctional Service of Canada is "heightening measures to forestall contraband from entering its institutions successful bid to assistance guarantee a harmless and unafraid situation for everyone," according to the quality release.

It already uses a fig of tools to forestall drugs from getting in, including ion scanners and drug-detector dogs to hunt buildings, idiosyncratic property, inmates, and visitors, the connection says.

There is besides a toll-free, confidential telephone extremity enactment for any information related to information astatine its institutions, 1-866-780-3784.