Smuggler-Proof Toilets Come To Canadian Prisons 18
Canadian federal prison guards will no longer have to draw straws to see who gets to do the most hated job in prison, search feces for contraband. Their savior is a specially designed toilet called the Drugloo. According to the company website, "feces are washed into an attached recovery container by automatic sprays. There water and anti-microbial fluids are used to separate and wash any drug packages. The package then goes into a sealed chute and from there is dropped directly into an evidence container, without anyone having touched the item."
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Does this mean that every cell will have one of these installed in it, or is it used when officers think someone might be carrying contraband? i.e. they are taken to a special location.
If a person is carrying contraband, can they reach down and grab the package without the officers seeing them do so before the device activates?
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I only see these being installed in select locations. Usually a Female Visitor will smuggle the contraband into the visiting room in their vagina, which is removed in the bathroom. After the bathroom visit the contra-band which is most often currency, is slipped to the inmate who will swallow it while eating some chips or whatever from the vending machines. The inmate then retrieves it the next day, this is where the evidence securing toilet will be used. Currency is highly prized inside because most drugs are smuggled in by the guards and other employees and they aren't interested in stamps or cigarettes for payment.
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So why would the guards be interested in reducing the availability of the currency needed to pay for the drugs that they are selling?
Seems like killing their own market, no?
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Where is it? :P
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now it'll just be the guards smuggling dope in?
Just what we need... (Score:2)
Evidence containers full of corn. :p
why bother? (Score:1)
Just let them have their drugs; they'll be quieter, better behaved, and easier to handle. The same works on the outside, by the way.
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That really depends on the drug. Cocaine, Crystal Meth, other various amphetamines, PCP, or LSD, definitely won't help calm the population. If they're smuggling in Xanax, Valium, and pot, that would be a completely different story.
Contraband can include cell phones, shanks (improvised knives), guns, ammunition, etc. You'd be amazed what people try to get into a jail.
When I was in law enforcement school, one of my classmates was working at a state prison. He brought a ca
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Ummmm.. More of store them in places that should be exit-only. You'd be amazed what someone will shove up their butt for the right price.
Narcotics can be swallowed in a condom or balloon, but they run the risk of it rupturing in their stomach and ingesting a lethal dose. In the butt can still be lethal, but there's an awful lot less for it to get eaten away by. And, swallowing drugs, you have to wait for it to pass. A direct insertion, it comes out on the first movement.
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And sadly enough, I found pictures to prove it. One lady inserted a revolver [regretfulmorning.com], but it got stuck and had to be surgically removed. It appears to be a .38, but I could be wrong. She should have gone with something like a Kel Tec P-3AT. If someone was bringing me one, I'd prefer a good old Colt 1911 with a couple extra loaded magazines, but I'm pretty sure that would be uncomfortable. :)
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Actually I'd think that smuggling in any handgun would be less painful if done in small parts batches.
The slide first, then the frame with all of the grip removed below the mag release, then the mag, then small parts. Sure 4 trips is a lot, but it sure beats pulling a 1911 out of your ass (I can honestly say that such an instance is one of the few times I'd rather the standard GI grip safety over a beavertail version :)).
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I'm pretty sure no matter how you put it in there, the frame would still be .... well .... less than comfortable. :)
A friend of mine had a book that showed all kinds of weird xrays. They were all real, of various objects put where they didn't belong. One was the infamous quick dry cement and pingpong ball. I'd guess the cement wasn't too bad, and for this guy the ping pong ball wouldn't have been rough, but once the cement hardened to form a full cast of his colon, it coul