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Mar 08, 2009 News
A prison officer, who had been allegedly under scrutiny for corruption at the Mazaruni Prison, has been caught attempting to smuggle marijuana into the Camp Street jail.
Kaieteur News understands that prison officials found about four packets of ganja on the rank yesterday after searching him as he was entering the front gate.
A source said that the rank also had four packets of cigarettes in his possession.
Investigators believe that the prison officer was smuggling the prohibited items for a prisoner.
He is reportedly in police custody.
There are reports that the rank was recently transferred from the Mazaruni Prison, where he was under scrutiny for his alleged involvement in corrupt transactions.
Director of Prisons Dale Erskine could only confirm that a prison officer had been ‘caught’, but provided no further information.
The incident appears to further confirm the alleged existence of a clique of corrupt prison officers, who collude with inmates in smuggling drugs and other prohibited items into the country’s main penitentiary.
Yesterday, sources within the prison again identified an inmate who they claimed was a central figure in the scheme.
They alleged that the prison orderly has been repeatedly nabbed with cell phones.
Earlier in the year, a lay pastor was charged after allegedly attempting to smuggle drugs into the prison.
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