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Lurigancho Prison, which is the worst of the worst,Joran van der Sloot is found guilty of murder in Peru, he certainly won't be living the life of luxury

Saturday, June 12

Joran van der Sloot is found guilty of murder in Peru, he certainly won't be living the life of luxury he's accustomed to.

"He'll be put in Lurigancho Prison, which is the worst of the worst," Michael Griffith, senior partner at the International Legal Defense Counsel, tells AOL News. "They should have a sign above the door there saying, 'All those who pass this way leave all hope behind.' "

Griffith has counseled and represented clients in more than 40 countries on a variety of charges. His most renowned case, involving an American incarcerated in a Turkish prison, was the basis for the film and book "Midnight Express."

Having visited more than two dozen foreign prisons, Griffith says Lurigancho is in a world of its own.

"There are 35 guys in a room there," he says. "They don't have beds, they go to the bathroom on the floor and the showers run once a week for 15 minutes. Fifty percent of the inmates have AIDS or tuberculosis, and you can die from eating the food."

Los Aztecas or Barrio Azteca, a group founded by Mexicans living in Texas in the 1980s.

Hispanic gangs that formed in the United States as a way of protecting themselves from racist attacks in the 1980s, are now playing a fundamental part in the drug trade. The gangs – which have expanded in number and territory - are now being employed by large drug trafficking organisations. They are now active in distributing narcotic drugs at a retail level as well as working as violent foot soldiers in the war to control the trafficking routes not only in the US but also throughout Latin America.

These gangs, which now have large followings in US cities, Phoenix, Los Angeles and El Paso, have spread to Latin America due to the policy of deporting suspected gang members to their country of origin. The majority of deported gang members have no real family support apart from their gang affiliations. This has caused the US street gangs to grow and prosper in Latin American countries as they take advantage of less adequate law enforcement and their geographical proximity to drug smuggling routes.

Members of these street gangs are merciless, many of them having grown up in the violent gang culture in impoverished US cities. These youngsters are some of the most vulnerable members of society; most are very young when they are recruited, come from very poor backgrounds and in many cases are addicted to drugs. They are treated as dispensable by the major drug cartels that have outsourced and now employ them to do their dirty work because it gives them an extra level of insulation from law enforcement.

One of the major street gangs that have integrated itself into the illicit drug trade is Los Aztecas or Barrio Azteca, a group founded by Mexicans living in Texas in the 1980s. They grew rapidly and expanded to the Mexican side of the border taking a foothold in the violent city of Ciudad Juarez. Los Aztecas now take orders from the Juarez Cartel and have been implicated in many recent assassinations linked to the drug trade. Many of the members consider themselves genuine Aztec warriors decorating themselves with tattoos of original Aztec symbols such as plumed serpents or the Aztec calendar. They also abide by a strict code that says that gang members must not consume “magic water” (heroin) because they might reveal secrets of the organisation and that they must not rob the people who live in the area that they control.

Guard Admits To Smuggling Drugs To Inmates - Central Coast News Story - KSBW The Central Coast

Thursday, April 8

Guard Admits To Smuggling Drugs To Inmates - Central Coast News Story - KSBW The Central Coast: "Authorities said 40-year-old Domingo Garcia also brought a semiautomatic handgun, 50 rounds of ammunition and two knives onto prison grounds. He told investigators that they were his personal weapons that he had forgotten to take out of his car.
Authorities said Garcia admitted to supplying inmates with phones and marijuana for money, including a $1,500 payment from one inmate at Folsom State Prison and $1,300 from another person to bring phones to the maximum-security Sacramento prison.
Garcia entered his plea March 24 to three felony counts. He faces a one-year jail term at his April 26 sentencing."

Alleged attempt to smuggle drugs into Merced County Jail leads to arrests | California City E-Zine

Alleged attempt to smuggle drugs into Merced County Jail leads to arrests California City E-Zine: "21-year-old documented gang member was arrested this month after allegedly trying to smuggle about $1,500 worth of methamphetamine and marijuana into Merced County Jail"

The tragedy of mental health and drugs in Prison as father of four is found dead in cell. « Dawn Willis sharing the News & Views of the Mentally Wealthy

The tragedy of mental health and drugs in Prison as father of four is found dead in cell. « Dawn Willis sharing the News & Views of the Mentally Wealthy: "Father of four Alan Ruddy was a sentenced inmate at Mag haberry Prison when he was found dead in his cell following an accidental drugs overdose on January 31, 2008.
The 29-year-old died after taking a cocktail of prescription and illegal drugs that had been smuggled into the jail, according to an investigation by the Prisoner Ombudsman.
Drug abuse in Northern Ireland’s jails has long been a major problem for the Northern Ireland Prison Service and, following the publication of yesterday’s report, Prisoner Ombudsman Pauline McCabe has called for a review of the Prison Service’s action plan to minimise the supply of drugs within its establishments.
Ms McCabe said that Mr Ruddy had not intended to take his own life but had “inadvertently overdosed by taking a large number of non-prescribed pills of unknown origin which combined with his prescribed medication to produce fatal effects.”
Mr Ruddy had a history of mental health problems and was suffering from epilepsy and depression. He was known to be a heavy drinker and also took illicit drugs. He had also been taking medication prescribed by his GP."

Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories | Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)

Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories Stop the Drug War (DRCNet): "Folsom, California, a Sacramento State Prison guard pleaded guilty Wednesday to smuggling drugs and cell phones into the prison for inmates. Domingo Garcia, 40, admitted receiving a $1,500 payment from one inmate for bringing him pot and $1,300 from another inmate for bringing him cell phones. He pleaded guilty to three felony counts and faces a one-year jail sentence."

Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories | Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)

Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories Stop the Drug War (DRCNet): "St. Louis, a city jail guard pleaded guilty Tuesday to a reduced charge after being indicted for smuggling heroin into the jail. Marilyn Denise Brown, 54, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to possess heroin. Brown admitted meeting an undercover officer and accepting a package she believed contained heroin. She was one of three city jail guards busted in a joint effort by the St. Louis Police and the DEA. The other two have already been convicted and sentenced to prison. Brown admitted meeting an undercover officer and accepting a package she believed contained heroin."

Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories | Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)

Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories Stop the Drug War (DRCNet): "prosecutors may be forced to drop as many as 1,400 drug cases in a growing scandal at the police drug lab. That number includes as many as 400 cases where people have already been convicted and are in drug rehab programs. Some 500 cases have already been dropped, although prosecutors say they may refile charges in some cases when independent testing is done. The lab was shut down March 9 after the department learned of allegations that veteran lab tech Deborah Madden had stolen and used cocaine held as evidence at the lab last year. Now, police are acknowledging that Madden may have stolen other drugs, including Oxycontin. She has yet to be charged. Other lab techs may have been involved in misdoings as well. Defense attorneys have reported the lab saying it had tested drug samples when it appears that the samples remain untouched. Stay tuned on this one"

New adversary in U.S. drug war: Contract killers for Mexican cartels - washingtonpost.com

New adversary in U.S. drug war: Contract killers for Mexican cartels - washingtonpost.com: "cross-border drug gang born in the prison cells of Texas has evolved into a sophisticated paramilitary killing machine that U.S. and Mexican officials suspect is responsible for thousands of assassinations here, including the recent ambush and slaying of three people linked to the U.S. consulate.
The heavily tattooed Barrio Azteca gang members have long operated across the border in El Paso, dealing drugs and stealing cars. But in Ciudad Juarez, the organization now specializes in contract killing for the Juarez drug cartel. According to U.S. law enforcement officers, it may have been involved in as many as half of the 2,660 killings in the city in the past year.
Officials on both sides of the border have watched as the Aztecas honed their ability to locate targets, stalk them and finally strike in brazen ambushes involving multiple chase cars, coded radio communications, coordinated blocking maneuvers and disciplined firepower by masked gunmen in body armor. Afterward, the assassins vanish, back to safe houses in the Juarez barrios or across the bridge to El Paso"

Letter from inmate to mom exposes conspiracy to smuggle drugs

Letter from inmate to mom exposes conspiracy to smuggle drugs: "Donald Dudrow, III, a resident of Port Clinton jail, was nailed by authorities when a letter allegedly written by him to his mother was returned to the jail because the zip code was wrong.
The letter was opened and read by jail officials, as all incoming mail is read, said Ottawa County Sheriff Bob Bratton.
The letter to the inmate’s mom included detailed instructions on how to sneak drugs into the jail, prosecutors said.
Already in jail for parole violating, Dudrow of Toledo, was indicted last week on charges of attempted drug trafficking and attempting to smuggle drugs into a correctional institution, authorities said."

'Drug mules' languish in foreign prisons

'Drug mules' languish in foreign prisons: "Family members of two Bruneian 'drug mules' facing a jail sentence in China plan to visit them when they have enough cash during the school holidays, according to a local diplomatic source in China.
However, the source said no other information was available to the mission concerning the two Bruneians.
The Narcotics Control Bureau Public Relations Officer also expressed a similar view, saying that no further information was available to them when asked on the five Bruneians facing jail sentences in China, Australia and Chile respectively."

A review of Piper Kerman's Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison. - By Jessica Grose - Slate Magazine

A review of Piper Kerman's Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison. - By Jessica Grose - Slate Magazine: "In her new memoir, Piper Kerman describes herself as a 'nice blond lady.' She is a Smith graduate from a loving New England family. She is also an ex-con. She served 13 months in 2004 and 2005, mostly in a minimum-security federal prison in Danbury, Conn. Kerman is the last person you would expect to go to jail—we know this because she tells us repeatedly in Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison. Her friends laugh because they don't believe her when she says she's about to go on trial for conspiracy charges stemming from drug trafficking and money laundering crimes she committed in her early 20s. When she finally lands in the clink, she observes her fellow prisoners with an anthropological distance because with her endless visitors, her loads of books, and her fancy education, she is a class apart."

Pinoy couple indicted on human smuggling charges

Pinoy couple indicted on human smuggling charges: "Maximino 'Max' Morales, 44, and his wife Melinda Morales, 46, were released after posting a $75k bond and $50k bond, respectively. Max Morales must wear an electronic monitoring device, according to the FBI.
The FBI arrested Max and Melinda Morales in their Paso Robles home Tuesday morning after an investigation found that the couple allegedly smuggled Filipino nationals and forced them to work as caregivers in their nursing homes for little or no pay.
The couple owned four elder care facilities in Paso Robles, about a three hours north of Los Angeles. All four home care facilities have now closed and the 19 patients have either been brought back to their families or to other care homes.
According to the affidavit, the FBI launched an investigation last November after two of the forced laborers confided their plight to a family member of one of the residents of the care home, who then notified the FBI.
The federal complaint alleges that the victims were recruited by the couple with promises of work in the United States, and then smuggled into the United States on transit visas. Once the victims arrived in the United States, they were forced to work entire days for as many as seven days a week, with little pay. Additionally, the couple confiscated victims’ passports and threatened to harm their families and/or deport them if they left prior to paying off their debt."

The Blotter | Big-mouth drug smuggler gets 10-year prison sentence | Seattle Times Newspaper

The Blotter Big-mouth drug smuggler gets 10-year prison sentence Seattle Times Newspaper: "Bradley K. Bourque, 35, of Langley, B.C., was arrested Oct. 20 after he delivered about 200,000 ecstasy pills (weighing more than 113 pounds) to undercover agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He reportedly bragged to the undercover officers about his smuggling, and the special secret compartment he had built into his GMC pickup, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. The secret compartment contained another 24 pounds of ecstasy pills and more than 13 pounds of ecstasy powder.
Border crossing records show Bourque had crossed from Canada into the U.S. five times in 2009 before his arrest.
Bourque pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute ecstacy on Jan. 6."

JACOB THE JEWELER FREED FROM PRISON, CONTINUES SENTENCE IN HALFWAY HOUSE | SOHH.COM

JACOB THE JEWELER FREED FROM PRISON, CONTINUES SENTENCE IN HALFWAY HOUSE SOHH.COM: "Arabov faced a maximum of 46 months behind bars for withholding information on jewelry he obtained from alleged Black Mafia Family (BMF) co-founder and drug dealer Terry Flenory. Pleading guilty last October 2007, the 42 year-old was sentenced to 30 months with an additional $50,000 fine earlier today, June 24, 2008. (Detroit Free Press)"

JACOB THE JEWELER FREED FROM PRISON, CONTINUES SENTENCE IN HALFWAY HOUSE | SOHH.COM

JACOB THE JEWELER FREED FROM PRISON, CONTINUES SENTENCE IN HALFWAY HOUSE SOHH.COM: "Jacob the Jeweler was transferred from federal prison to a halfway house on March 25. The King of Bling, 44, real name Jacob Arabov, was sentenced in 2008 to 2½ years for lying to investigators probing money laundering by Detroit's Black Mafia gang. The judge cut the sentence by seven months citing Jacob's good works for charity. Arabov, who is given shout-outs in 62 different rap songs, is scheduled for full release in September. Meanwhile, during the day he can help wife Angela run Jacob & Co. He just has to return to the 'residential re-entry facility' each night. (New York Post)"

TILDEN LAW – Orlando Criminal Attorney » Worker Arrested After Smuggling Drugs into Prison

TILDEN LAW – Orlando Criminal Attorney » Worker Arrested After Smuggling Drugs into Prison: "Anthony Ducasse, 25, of Clermont was arrested by the Lake County Sheriff’s Office and accused of attempting to smuggle approximately 7 ounces of Marijuana into a state prison facility in Clermont. Ducasse had been employed as a contracted food service worker.
According to Lake County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Jim Vachon, the drugs were discovered during a daily pat down of workers entering the Lake Correctional Institution off U.S. Highway 27 in Clermont. Deputies responded to the scene at the request of prison officials and apprehended Ducasse today, Vachon said. The drugs were in a plastic bag and concealed in Ducasse’s pants.
Antony Ducasse, 25, was found in possession of the narcotics during a staff inspection at a prison gate, according to a statement from LCSO Sgt. Jim Vachon. The street value of the drugs was estimated at $500. No additional illegal drugs were found after authorities conducted a search of Ducasse’s vehicle."

British Columbia News » Blog Archive » B.C. man who pleaded guilty to drug smuggling gets 10 years in U.S. prison

British Columbia News » Blog Archive » B.C. man who pleaded guilty to drug smuggling gets 10 years in U.S. prison: "Bradley Keith Bourque, 35, of Langley, B.C., was arrested last October and pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy to smuggle ecstasy across the border into the United States.
Bourque was arrested as he delivered the more than 50 kilograms of ecstasy tablets to undercover agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said a news release from the United States Attorney’s Office in Seattle.
The release said Bourque, who bragged to the officers about his smuggling, had a secret compartment in his pickup truck that contained an additional 11 kilograms of ecstasy pills and six kilograms of ecstasy powder.
Border crossing records show that, before his arrest, Bourque crossed from Canada into the U.S. a total of five times in 2009."

Three major Mexican drug gangsters sentenced in San Diego | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times

Three major Mexican drug gangsters sentenced in San Diego L.A. NOW Los Angeles Times: "Three major figures in the Arellano-Felix narcotics cartel that used violence and bribery in its cocaine and marijuana empire have been given lengthy prison sentences in San Diego federal court, officials said.
On Monday, Jesus Labra-Aviles was sentenced to 40 years and Armando Martinez-Duarte to 18 years and four months. Last week, Jorge Aureliano Felix was sentenced to 30 years in prison. All had pleaded guilty to a variety of conspiracy and drug charges.
A fourth defendant in the case is set to be sentenced next month. The reputed gangsters were extradited to the U.S. in December 2008.
The cartel operates from the Tijuana-Mexicali region to smuggle drugs into the U.S., bribing Mexican officials and murdering rivals, according to court documents."

FOXNews.com - Two Mexican Inmates Escape From Texas Prison

FOXNews.com - Two Mexican Inmates Escape From Texas Prison: "Jose Bustos-Diaz, 21, and Octavio Ramos Lopez, 27, were missing from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Briscoe Unit in Dilley, Texas, about 75 miles southwest of San Antonio, agency spokesman Jason Clark said.
Details of the escape were sketchy although Clark said officers realized during a routine inmate count that the two had disappeared. He said the pair had been accounted for earlier Tuesday.
They were believed to have fled on foot through a cut fence, Clark said."

Ada Woman Charged With Smuggling Contraband Into Cushing Prison - News - 1600kush.com

Ada Woman Charged With Smuggling Contraband Into Cushing Prison - News - 1600kush.com: "Lisa Victoria Frazier, 31, of Ada, was arraigned on April Fools' Day by Special District Judge Phillip Corley and ordered to return to court with an attorney on April 29, court records show.
If convicted of bringing contraband into a penal institution on March 28, Frazier could be given as much as a five-year prison term and a $1,000 fine, court records show."

BBC News - Mobile phones smuggled into Teeside jail

BBC News - Mobile phones smuggled into Teeside jail: "prison staff seized 79 mobiles at Stockton's Holme House last year.
The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) said the number of phones found reflected staff's success in finding them.
Holme House staff also seized small amounts of illegal drugs and home-brewed alcohol.
Geoff Dobson, deputy director of the Prison Reform Trust, which campaigns for major change in the penal system, blamed overcrowded prisons and the difficulties in policing them.
He said: 'This is not particular to Holme House, it is across much of the estate. And it does allow for intimidating witnesses, organising criminal activities from inside prison and arranging drug drops.
'It is very difficult in an over-crowded prison system. I think that is much of the problem with large local jails, it is very hard to police them adequately"

Court affirms SD drug convictions

Court affirms SD drug convictions: "federal appeals court has upheld the convictions of two men found to have drugs in their car when stopped for speeding west of Rapid City two years ago.
Jese Hernandez Mendoza of Washington state and Eddie Martinez of Los Angeles were sentenced to 10 years in prison for having methamphetamine and cocaine hidden in their car.
They argued in part that the vehicle search was unreasonable because the Highway Patrol trooper knew a similar search earlier in the day in Wyoming hadn't uncovered any drugs. One defendant said statements he later made should have been suppressed because of that."

wbur.org » News » 'Orange Is The New Black' In Federal Women's Prison

wbur.org » News » 'Orange Is The New Black' In Federal Women's Prison: "Smith graduate Piper Kerman was bored with her middle class life — so she joined a group of bohemian artists-turned-drug smugglers. After traveling to exotic resorts and smuggling a suitcase packed with drug money from Chicago to Brussels, she broke free from the drug trade and found a new life, normal jobs and a blooming romance.
But 10 years later, federal officers knocked on her door. Kerman pleaded guilty to drug smuggling and money laundering and went on to serve time in a federal women's prison in Danbury, Conn.
In her memoir, Orange Is The New Black: My Year In A Women's Prison, Kerman recounts a year in which she learned to clean her cell with maxipads, to wire a light fixture, and to make prison cheesecake — all while finding camaraderie with women from all walks of life."

Sacto 9-1-1: Galt gangster gets 4 years for accidental shooting

Sacto 9-1-1: Galt gangster gets 4 years for accidental shooting: "Galt street gang member who accidentally shot and killed one of his friends last year was sentenced today to four years in state prison for involuntary manslaughter.
Hector Quintero, 19, pleaded no contest March 5 to the shotgun killing of his friend, Gerardo Briseno, 19.
Quintero's probation report, filed today in Sacramento Superior Court, showed that Briseno bought the shotgun just three days before his Sept. 10 death in a friend's residence on Alice Rae Circle.
Briseno and Quintero were joking around with the shotgun, cocking it and pretending to shoot each other, when Quintero -- thinking the weapon was unloaded -- pulled the trigger and blew a hole through the right side of Briseno's nose, the report said.
'It was an accident,' Quintero told another friend right after the shooting, the probation report shows. 'I just shot the fool.'"

Woman sentenced for smuggling drugs into FCI Terre Haute [Archive] - Prison Talk

Woman sentenced for smuggling drugs into FCI Terre Haute [Archive] - Prison Talk: "Kimberly M. Clark, 32, of Evansville, was sentenced to 18 months in prison Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Larry J. McKinney following her guilty plea to providing contraband in prison, said Timothy M. Morrison, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. This case was the result of an investigation by the FBI and Federal Bureau of Prisons."

Three Arellano-Felix Members Sentenced to Prison and Two Will Forfeit $1 Million Each

Three Arellano-Felix Members Sentenced to Prison and Two Will Forfeit $1 Million Each: "Jesus Labra-Aviles and Armando Martinez-Duarte were sentenced today to 480 months and 220 months of imprisonment, respectively. In addition, on March 29, 2010, Jorge Aureliano Felix was sentenced to 360 months in prison. United States District Judge Larry A. Burns, who imposed the sentences, also ordered Labra and Felix to forfeit $1 million each.
The sentences follow the defendants’ guilty pleas in October 2009 to crimes arising from their leadership of the AFO. According to court documents, for nearly two decades, the AFO controlled drug trafficking and other criminal activity in the Tijuana or Mexicali areas of Baja California, Mexico. All of the defendants admitted in their guilty pleas that AFO members distributed indeterminable amounts of cocaine and marijuana exceeding hundreds of tons each. The defendants also admitted that AFO members paid millions of dollars in bribes to law enforcement, government, and military officials to evade capture and prosecution.
Court documents establish Labra, who was convicted of conspiring to distribute cocaine and marijuana, partnered with Benjamin Arellano-Felix to obtain large amounts of cocaine and marijuana. Labra admitted as part of his guilty plea that he helped organize and lead the conspiracy, which involved hundreds of members and associates. Labra also acknowledged that he was consulted on major decisions and directed the actions of others."

Report 008: JAMAICA TURNING INTO AN ISLAND PRISON, MORE JAMAICANS FACING VISA RESTRICTIONS - Over The Limit Entertainment

Report 008: JAMAICA TURNING INTO AN ISLAND PRISON, MORE JAMAICANS FACING VISA RESTRICTIONS - Over The Limit Entertainment: "Jamaica gun killing and other form of murder sky-rocking in the range of 1,700 per year, Jamaican Artiste not giving a dam regards what coming out of their mouth or what they involved with when they in other people country. Two mouth artiste like Buju Banton who singing against the same thing he locked up for and now you have Flippa Mafia in prison for smuggling himself into the US, no wonder these country closing the border on Jamaica. Its yesterday news breaks out that five Jamaican artiste about to have their visa revoke for reason not yet published. Not only Jamaican artiste facing visa restriction regular Jamaican's, business men and politician's facing visa problem which tampering on their social life and business ventures.
All this Visa crisis can be noticed when Jamaica refused to hand over Christopher Dudus Coke when the US sent Dudus expedition request to Jamaica, head of Jamaica Government Bruce Golden took it up on his head instead of letting the Jamaica court which have laws in place to exercise and give Dudus his due-process.
With all this drama and visa restriction it would seems Jamaica is turning into an island prison, only those with visa can leave"

Ganja sneaked into prison in pickle bottles | Deccan Chronicle | 2010-04-08

Ganja sneaked into prison in pickle bottles Deccan Chronicle 2010-04-08: "smuggling ganja inside the jail in their shoes, socks and various body orifices, drug peddlers at Puzhal Central Prison are now packing the drug in pickle bottles that they carry into the facility. Over the past few weeks, and as recently as Tuesday, prison authorities arrested several people for attempting to smuggle ganja inside pickle bottles.
“We discovered that the quantity of pickles being sent inside the jail had increased drastically in recent times. We decided to check a few of the pickle bottles and that is how we busted the racket,” a senior prison official said.
According to the official, smugglers pack ganja in little polythene bags and stuff several packets of the narcotic inside each bottle of pickle. “Due to the dark colour of the pickle, it is impossible to see the packets,” he added. “We dig into the bottle with a spoon to detect the packets.”
He added that smugglers have already tried packing narcotics inside oranges, pomegranates and even papayas by scooping out the inside of the fruit and stuffing it with ganja.
Prison officials claimed that they have approached the government for more scanners in state prisons. Only the central prisons in Coimbatore, Madurai and Tiruchy currently have scanners that can detect narcotic substances or weapons. “We have requested for scanners at the Puzhal, Cuddalore and Vellore prisons too,” an official said.
The officials said they had been requesting for additional forces to be deployed outside the prison walls as a bulk of the smuggled goods are simply thrown over the prison wall and into the facility."

The Takeaway: An Unlikely Inmate Looks Back on Her Time in Prison - The Takeaway

The Takeaway: An Unlikely Inmate Looks Back on Her Time in Prison - The Takeaway: "Piper Kerman graduated from Smith College she veered away from the typical middle class lifestyle and chose, for a time, to go a different way. She fell in with a group of charismatic drug smugglers and ended up traveling to fine resorts around the world to help traffic drug money.
On one trip Kerman smuggled a bag full of drug money from the U.S. to Europe. At the time, she seemed to get away with it. Eventually Kerman came back home and settled into a more normal career. Five years later federal officials arrested her for drug smuggling, to which she pled guilty and served a year in prison.
Piper Kerman looks back on her experience in her new book, “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison.” She says that after meeting women in prison who had problems related to drug addiction and the drug trade, she learned that crime, including her own crime, is born out of an indifference to human suffering"

Prison drug mule locked up by judge - Doncaster Today

Prison drug mule locked up by judge - Doncaster Today: "Alex Tomlinson hid almost £2,000 of heroin and £40 of skunk cannabis beneath the waistband of her trousers when she visited an inmate at Lindholme Prison. Doncaster Crown Court heard the drugs would have a prison value of up to five times their wo rth on the street.
However, she was caught when prisoner Michael Knight, serving three and a half years for unlawful wounding, attempted to retrieve the drugs.
The 22-year-old had taken the initiative in arranging the smuggling operation to earn £200 to pay off rent arrears. She wept as she was sentenced for her first offence."

Lynn Manning, 35, of 334 Maryland Ave., was caught by correction officers Wednesday night when she tried to bring a "plug" containing numerous methadone pills into the prison

Wednesday, April 7

Lynn Manning, 35, of 334 Maryland Ave., was caught by correction officers Wednesday night when she tried to bring a "plug" containing numerous methadone pills into the prison, according to state police.

LYNN MANNING

A "plug" is a small packet sealed with either tape or made from the tied end of a balloon in which contraband can be smuggled into the prison by inmates, authorities explained.

Investigators did not identify Manning, who teaches sixth grade English, as a teacher in a press release issued Friday morning about the incident. After calls from UnionLeader.com and other media, however, school officials confirmed the teacher's arrest.

Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas, who serves as chairman of the Board of School Committee, said he, along with Assistant Superintendent Karen Burkush and the school district's human resources representative, went to Hillside this morning to address the issue.

Burkush and Principal Stephen J. Donohue removed Manning from the classroom.

Gatsas said he will meet Monday with School District Superintendent Thomas Brennan, who was out of town Friday, and a decision will be made concerning Manning's employment.

Prison spokesman Jeff Lyons said correction officers received information that Manning was bringing contraband with her Wednesday to the prison and confronted her when she arrived. She was told to turn out her pockets which turned up the drugs, according to Lyons.

He declined to identify who Manning was visiting, explaining prison officials treat all prisoner visiting lists as confidential information.

No one else was arrested, although the state police investigation is continuing.

Manning is charged with three felonies: delivery of article to prisoners, possession of a narcotic drug and possession of a narcotic drug with the intent to distribute.

She is free on $30,000 personal recognizance bail with a May 7 arraignment date in Concord District Court.

Manning made news in 2001 when she was a first-year, eighth-grade science teacher at Parkside Middle School.

She filed a sexual assault complaint against then-principal Michael Rooney alleging he touched her inappropriately at her house the night of Nov. 30, 2001.

Rooney, Manning and several other teachers went out drinking that night and an intoxicated Rooney ended up spending the night at Manning's home, according to a police investigation of the incident.

Rooney resigned but Manning asked police to close the investigation about a month after filing the complaint saying she believed the matter was being handled properly by the school board and her attorney.

Aijalon Mahli Gomes, 30 years of age from Boston, was reportedly arrested last January 25 by North Korean authorities

Aijalon Mahli Gomes, 30 years of age from Boston, was reportedly arrested last January 25 by North Korean authorities for illegally crossing into the country from China, among other illegal activities. Gomes acknowledged the act during a trial last Tuesday, according to Korean Central News Agency.

“An examination was made of the hostile act committed against the Korean nation and the trespassing on the border of (North Korea) against which an indictment was brought in and his guilt was confirmed, ” according to the dispatch by the KCNA.

Gomes will be spending eight years in a North Korean labor prison, aside from being fined the equivalent of approximately US$700,000.

HMP Full Sutton near York, which holds some of the country's most difficult and dangerous criminals, are "preoccupied with health and drug issues",

The findings were revealed in an annual report by the Independent Monitoring Board which monitors day-to-day life in the UK's prisons.The report revealed "healthcare services have had another successful year" at the Category A jail, with virtually no complaints to the board.It said: "In many cases therefore, the standard of healthcare at Full Sutton is probably above that which an individual could expect in the community."The governor and his staff were praised for running a well-managed prison, which caters for 600 prisoners - all of whom are serving long sentences in high-security conditions.The report also revealed that a prisoner smashed up his cell after magistrates gave him a lenient sentence for assaulting a prison officer."He received a lenient concurrent sentence which did not act as a deterrent and actually encouraged him in his subsequent destructive action," the report concluded.The report also said there had been an "unsatisfactory and probably unreasonable" delay in investigating a foiled escape plot by terrorist prisoners last March, because the matter was handed over to Special Branch at a time when there were "other serious terrorist incidents in the public domain".Seven prisoners were sent to the segregation unit with loss of privileges but there was no clear-cut evidence and nobody was charged with any offence.

Thirteen inmates escaped when armed men stormed a prison

Three prisoners were shot to death in the raid, but it was unclear who killed them

inmates escaped when armed men stormed a prison in the northern Mexican border city of Reynosa, an official with the federal Attorney General’s Office said Sunday.It was the second mass jailbreak in less than two weeks in Tamaulipas state, which has been wracked by a new wave of battles between feuding drug gangs.Thirty-one guards have been detained for questioning in the Friday prison break in Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity under the agency’s policy.The Tamaulipas government had reported the raid and the death of the three prisoners late Friday, but did not mention the escapes. Its three-sentence statement said the armed men arrived in 10 cars and exchanged gunfire with guards.Nobody could be reached for comment Sunday at the offices of the Tamaulipas governor, the state prosecutors’ office or public safety department.Eleven of the inmates who escaped were in prison on federal crime charges, even though they were being held at the state institution, according to the official at the Attorney General’s Office.The official had no other information on the offenses, the slain inmates or the armed men.Last week, 40 inmates escaped from a prison in Matamoros, a Tamaulipas city across the border from Brownsville, Texas. The prison director was under investigation, and 50 employees were held for questioning.Such escapes are common from Mexican state prisons, where guards are often either bought off or too frightened to resist heavily armed gangs who arrive to free allies or kill rivals.Mexico’s drug-gang wars have heated up in Tamaulipas and neighboring Nuevo Leon state. Authorities have blamed the bloodshed on a split between the Gulf cartel and its former ally, the Zetas.On Saturday night, three people were killed in a shootout between soldiers and armed men on a highway near Ciudad Mier, a town near the border city of Nuevo Laredo, the Tamaulipas government said on its Web site.One of those killed was an innocent bystander, the statement said. The other two were gunmen.Military patrols and checkpoints have repeatedly come under fire in Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon, where armed gangs have raised roadblocks in the middle of cities and around army bases in a bold new tactic to impede security operations.

prison gangs in California.

There are a number of prison gangs in California. They include the Mexican Mafia, Nuestra Familia, Aryan Brotherhood, The Black Guerilla Family and others. The United States department of justice stated “Prison gang consists of a select group on inmates who have an organized hierarchy and who are governed by an establish code of conduct. Prison gangs vary in both organization and composition, from highly structured gangs such as the Aryan Brotherhood and Nuestra Familia to gangs with a less formalized structure such as the Mexican Mafia….Prison gangs pose a threat because of their role in transpiration and distribution of narcotics.” Inmates join prison gangs for protection, to survive in the system and to have access to drugs. Inmates that do not want to be involved in prison gangs are referred to drop-outs. They include ex-law enforcement, child molesters and ex-gang members.

The first prison gang to be established is the Mexican Mafia also known as La Eme. La Eme is a Spanish word meaning the M. The Mexican Mafia formed in the late 1950’s in Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, California. During this time white inmates had control of the prison which led to Mexican-Americans inmates from East Los Angeles organize themselves. This gang is composed of Mexican Americans whose philosophy is to have control of drug trafficking. Their color of choice is blue and the number thirteen. The Mexican Mafia is identified with tattoos such as the Black Hand, the Mexican eagle with the snake and the words Eme. The Mexican Mafia associates with Border Brothers, Aryan Brotherhoods and Mexikanemi. Their rivals are the Nuestra Familia and the Black Guerilla Family.

Nuestra Familia was formed in 1968 in Folsom State prison. Besides the Mexican Mafia, Nuestra Familia is one of the most known Hispanic prison gangs. Nuestra Familia consists primarily of Mexican-American males who formerly belonged to street gangs in Central and Northern California. Walkers states “The La Nuestra Familia prison gang was established to protect younger, rural, Mexican-American inmates from other predator gangs, most notably urban, Mexican-American inmates from the Los Angeles area who belonged to the Mexican Mafia.” Members are Hispanic and are required to do a blood in blood out oath. They associate with Black Guerilla Family and the Northern structure. Their rivals are Texas Syndicate, Mexican Mafia and Aryan Brotherhoods. Nuestra Familia identify themselves with the color red and tattoos with the words NF and a sombrero with a dagger. The Mexican Mafia and Nuestra Familia are both Hispanic prison gangs but rivals.
Even tough these gangs members are locked up they still have connections with the outside world. They still continue to commit crimes inside of prison and continues when release. Recently thirty one members of the Mexican Mafia pleaded guilty to drugs and weapons near the Mexican border. The gang members have been sentenced to more than 200 hundreds years. Patrick Ponce the cell leader pleads guilty to extortion, kidnapping and other charges. (CBS, 2010)

Justin Shane Slater, 24, of 117 Buffalo Trail, Shawneeland, was arrested in Wardensville, W.Va.

Monday, June 15

Justin Shane Slater, 24, of 117 Buffalo Trail, Shawneeland, was arrested in Wardensville, W.Va. His brother, Gregory Scott Slater Jr., 28, was found dead Thursday in his Frederick County home. Authorities called off the search for Justin Slater's ex-girlfriend, Kayleigh Marie Plamondon, 22, of White Post, after Slater was arrested, Clarke County Sheriff Anthony W. "Tony" Roper said. Deputies had found evidence of a violent struggle at a Clarke County home where she was house-sitting."As a result of our conversation with Justin, we suspended our search for Kayleigh," Roper said. He said West Virginia and Clarke County authorities discovered a body in a house at Timberline Drive in Lost River, W.Va. The home -- which now is vacant -- once was owned by Slater's parents, Frederick County Sheriff's Maj. Robert "Robbie" Eckman said.Officials would not confirm whether the body was that of Plamondon. Identification of the body, time and cause of death is pending an autopsy this morning by a West Virginia medical examiner in Charleston, W.Va., Roper said."The Plamondon family has asked that this office pass along their appreciation to the community and law enforcement agencies for their efforts to find Kayleigh," a Clarke County Sheriff's Office news release states.Authorities declined to discuss details of their interview with Slater, which was attended by officials from both Frederick and Clarke counties.Slater is being held on a fugitive from justice warrant at Potomac Highlands Regional Jail in Augusta, W.Va., where he awaits an extradition hearing. Eckman said he expected the hearing to come quickly, but it could be up to 10 days. Slater will be taken to Northwestern Regional Adult Detention Center in Frederick County upon extradition. The Clarke County Sheriff's Office has not issued a warrant for his arrest, Roper said.Slater faces charges of first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a murder, Eckman said.
According to Eckman, Slater entered a 7-Eleven in Wardensville, W.Va., about 1:15 p.m. Saturday. The store's clerk recognized Slater as a wanted suspect and notified the 911 center in Hardy County, giving a description of the vehicle he was driving.
Hardy County Deputy David Warren stopped the car around 1:55 p.m. and identified the driver as Slater. Slater was the only person in the car at the time, Eckman said, and was driving a black, four-door Volkswagen -- not the gold Jeep Cherokee officials had been looking for.Slater -- whose nickname is "Pi" -- surrendered without resistance, and authorities determined the vehicle had been stolen earlier Saturday in Schuylkill County, Pa., Eckman said.Pennsylvania authorities are still searching for the Jeep, but that search does not involve area law enforcement, the news release states.The search for Plamondon led authorities to the banks of the Shenandoah River on Friday, where wilderness and cadaver search-and-rescue dogs aided the operation. Kayleigh Plamondon's mother, Debbie Plamondon, made a plea for her daughter's safe return.Jeffrey Riggleman, Slater's uncle, said Friday the two brothers "loved each other. They talked to each other about everything."

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