Prison staff seize $941K of drugs, 'unauthorized items'

Prison staff seize $941K of drugs, 'unauthorized items'

Correctional staff at the Dorchester Penitentiary have seized a package containing contraband and several “unauthorized items” on the prison’s perimeter.

70% of jail inmates are undertrials; panel flags drug smuggling, urges tech use in prisons

New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has observed that 70 per cent of the prisoners in Indian jails are undertrials and they are not being released from the prisons for want of sureties or inability to pay fine amounts. The report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs also observed that surveillance technology should be used at every entry point in the prisons to detect drugs. “The committee has observed that more than 70 per cent …