A x-ray showing cell phone in someone’s rectum.
A Blackberry cellphone was removed from the rectum of an inmate at the Bordelais Correctional Facility on May 8, HTS News has reported.
Clive Jules, communications officer at the Bordelais Correctional Facility, has identified the inmate as Alvin Emmanuel of Grand Riviere, Dennery.
Jules told HTS that Emmanuel, who was working on the prison’s farm, was suspected of trafficking contraband into the facility. Jules said Emmanuel was taken to the Dennery Hospital for a cavity search, during which a cell phone was discovered inside his rectum.
On the same day, another inmate was also busted for transporting marijuana in his private parts.
Jules has identified that inmate as Francis James, who was also working on the prison farm, and serving a six-month sentence praedial larceny and one month for trespassing.
Like Emmanuel, Jules said James was suspected of trafficking contraband. As a result, James was searched and a quantity of marijuana was found hidden on the foreskin of his penis.
Both men face additional prison time for the offences.
Jules told HTS that prison officials have a responsibility to ensure that “we stop all types of trafficking at our facility”. He said officials are sending a strong message to all persons involved in trafficking to desist from those practices because “we will stop at nothing to ensure they are caught”.
In April, a female Bordelais Correctional Facility officer was arrested after two bricks of hashish was discovered in a sanitary napkin she was wearing. Lydia Charlery, 40, of La Pointe, Mon Repos was also charged for attempting smuggle a cellphone into the prison.