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–ranks fingered in organized crime ring within prison wallsBy Michael JordanDirector of Prisons, Dale Erskine has promised to investigate allegations about a ring of corrupt junior and senior prison staffers who collude with prisoners to smuggle drugs,Cheap China Jerseys, cash, alcohol and cell phones in the Georgetown Prison.The reports and other serious allegations surfaced during several recent interviews that Kaieteur News conducted with inmates and Prison staff, who said they want the culprits to be exposed.From what the sources revealed, the recent arrest of a pastor for alleged drug smuggling at ‘Lot 12’ is merely the tip of the iceberg regarding organised crime within the prison walls.Even before that arrest, sources within the penal system had informed Kaieteur News of the smuggling of drugs, cell phones and cash, and the provision—for a price—of special meals and even of an office that is used as a ‘short time room’ for sexual liaisons between prisoners and their spouses.The sources identified by name several of the key players in the alleged ring of corruption. They include prisoners,Wholesale China Jerseys Free Shpping, particularly those with special privileges,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, as well as junior and senior prison officers and even their spouses.According to the sources, one key player is a prison orderly who is serving time for manslaughter.Kaieteur News was told that this inmate has access to virtually every section of the prison and acts as a go-between in the illegal transactions.He does odd jobs for prison officers, and corrupt ranks reportedly entrust him to smuggle marijuana, cell phones and other items to prisoners.“Nobody checks him. He works for the (corrupt) prison officers and sells to the prisoners,” one source said.Visitors reportedly pay about $3,000 to have cell phones smuggled in for incarcerated relatives.Erskine confirmed that he has received similar reports about this convict. According to the Director of Prisons, the inmate has been warned and was even transferred at one time to another penitentiary.However, Erskine could not say whether the prison orderly was ever caught with any illegal substance.Pointing to the existence of a well-organized drug racket, the sources said that corrupt ranks sell marijuana directly to some prisoners, who then turn a profit by selling at a higher price to their fellow inmates.“We would buy ‘weed’ at $16,000 to $20,000 a pound, and you can sell back at $50,000 a pound,” one inmate told Kaieteur News.According to one Prison officer, so much money circulates in the Georgetown Prison that, during random searches, ranks sometimes find hundreds of thousands of dollars that inmates have stashed away.Kaieteur News was told that the corrupt ranks would “pocket some and hand over the rest.”One prison rank claimed that some inmates make so much money in the prison that they can take care of their families.“One prisoner bought a bicycle for his son’s birthday; some prisoners even throw ‘box’, and they even buy school supplies for their children,” the rank said.Some prisoners claimed that drug trafficking is a necessary means for survival, particularly for inmates doing hard time.With the money they earn, inmates can purchase ‘special meals’ from the prison kitchen, rather than eat the prison fare.The special meals cost between $60 and $100.“I hardly eat jail food; I eat special food,” one inmate boasted. Even alcohol,Cheap Jerseys 2018, concealed in water bottles, is smuggled into the jail for inmates, one rank said.Prison supplies from the kitchen are also allegedly smuggled out of the penitentiary.Inmates also use their ill-gotten gains to buy soap and other toiletries that are not readily available to them.Perhaps one of the most serious allegations was leveled against a senior prison officer who is accused of using an office as a ‘short time room’ for sexual liaisons between prisoners and their spouses.Prisoners reportedly pay between $5,000 and $10,000 for these conjugal visits.And Kaieteur News was also told of a female prison officer who would allow the relatives of some prisoners to pass through the prison gates on Sundays, when visitors are not allowed.And according to the sources, inmates who prefer to be in Georgetown can pay $5,000 to one senior officer to arrange for them not to be transferred out of town so they can be in contact with their relatives.But Erskine expressed some doubt that his senior ranks were taking money to arrange sexual liaisons and prevent transferals. Nevertheless, he said that the allegations will be investigated.He conceded that there is corruption among inmates and ranks in the Camp Street penitentiary.He pointed to the fact that corrupt ranks have been placed before the courts when they are caught.“I won’t deny that (there is corruption) …it’s not something that you can stop in jail, but once you’re caught you will have to ‘bear your chafe’. As long as there is evidence, we will prosecute.”He is adamant that poor salaries should not be an excuse for breaking the law. A lot of men (ranks) are under the same pressure but they don’t break the law.”But this is not the first time that senior prison officers have been fingered in corruption.In 1991,NFL Stitched Jerseys, a senior prison official, known as the ‘Mafia Boss’, was accused of allowing a high-profile prisoner to slip out of the prison occasionally to meet his wife.The ‘Mafia Boss’ was eventually exposed for allegedly taking money from a remand prison, whom he had promised to assist in having a speedy trial.After the deal fell through the prisoner complained to the authorities and the officer was charged and convicted.Some prison officers are particularly concerned about the possibility of dangerous inmates getting their hands on firearms because of their corrupt colleagues.This occurred in February 2002, when five dangerous inmates broke out of the Georgetown Prison after shooting and maiming a female rank and killing her male colleague.Last year,China NFL Jerseys, also,NFL Jerseys Cheap, prison officials nabbed an inmate with a loaded .38 revolver that was reportedly thrown over the prison walls. Earlier in the year, prison officers found seven .22 rounds of ammunition on inmate Edwin Niles, who was incarcerated on a narcotics trafficking charge. Prison ranks have also found several mobile phones in prison cells.On Saturday, a lay pastor was allegedly caught trying to smuggle a quantity of marijuana into the Georgetown Prison.The recent bust gives credit to reports that most of the illegal articles found in the prison are taken in by staff members and other trusted individuals.This view was expressed by two retired Correctional Officers from the United States of America who had conducted a training programme for prison officers on ethical dilemmas late last year.These illegal items are smuggled despite the presence of an x-ray scanner.However, according to Deputy Director of Prisons, Pushanand Tahal, while the Georgetown Prison is equipped with a scanner it can only detect illegal objects in a bag.He said that the culprits are now moving in stuff by body cavities (strapping items to the body) which would render the scanner useless, since it is not designed for that purpose.