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KINGSTON, ON, February 4, 2008 - On Saturday, February 2nd, 2008, staff at Joyceville Institution seized 31 grams of marijuana from a visitor who was intending to participate in a scheduled inmate visit.

Police were contacted and the visitor has been charged with Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking. The estimated institutional value of the drugs is $3,100.

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.

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For more information, media representatives may contact:

Giles Allan
Assistant Warden Management Services
Joyceville Institution
613 536-6410