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CONTRABAND AT SPRINGHILL INSTITUTION

SPRINGHILL, NS, September 23, 2008 - On Monday, September 15, 2008, a large quantity of drugs was confiscated at Springhill Institution. Correctional Service of Canada seized drugs and illegal cigarettes that were being sent in through outside parcels.

The intercepted drugs included: Didaudid, Oxycotin and Marijuana as well as tobacco. The total estimated institutional value of the drugs is approximately $6,960 and the tobacco is $16,500 for a total of $23,460.

The Springhill Police Service and the North Cumberland Street Crime Unit are investigating the incident.

Preventing drugs from entering our institutions is an ongoing challenge. CSC has a number of tools available that are consistently used in our efforts to control the flow of drugs into our institutions. These include such things as searches of offenders, visitors, ion scanners, drug dogs and searches of buildings and cells.

Springhill Institution is a medium-security federal penitentiary, housing 460 male offenders.

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For more information, media representatives may contact:

Shannon Oickle
Chief, Administration and Materiel Management
902-597-0132