6 Shocking Ways People Smuggle Things Into Prison

You won’t believe these genius and insanely bizarre methods.

Inmates stop at nothing when it comes to smuggling contraband in correctional facilities. Everyday drugs and other prohibited items make their way into jails worldwide.

The authorities use many advanced methods to stop contraband from getting into jail.

Still, inmates have also improved their smuggling mechanism over time, and they have devised many ways to smuggle things into prison — whether it is a weapon, drug, or mobile phone.

Methods used by the inmates are usually gross and always dangerous, but this is a risk they are willing to take for desperate inmates. Below are different schemes that inmates use to get things into prison.

1. Explosives Hidden In Lady Part

An explosion in a Colombian jail took the lives of 5 inmates and injured dozens, shocked the authorities.

When the authorities investigated, this is what they found: A female visitor brought a grenade securely hidden away in her vagina.

The prison security was not allowed to inspect women’s genitals which she must have known, and thus she moved in quite smoothly.

After meeting with her contact, she removed the grenade from her private part and passed it to her communication. The woman left the Colombian jail without being caught.

2. Underwear Soaked In Methadone

In Kentucky’s Jessamine County Detention Center, an inmate died because of a methadone overdose. This left the authorities baffled.

When they dug deeper, they found a unique way of smuggling adopted by the cellmate of the deceased.

Michael Jones managed to smuggle drugs despite the strip test, and the way he did it is unique. Jones soaked his underwear in methadone which is an odorless and colorless substance.

Jones tore his underwear into pieces upon reaching his cell and distributed them among his mates.

3. Throwing Contraband Over The Wall Of Prison

Have you ever wondered why prison walls are often too high? The authorities don’t want things to be thrown over them for many other obvious reasons.

Packages containing SIM cards, drugs, or even a mobile phone are thrown over the prison walls.

Things that are meant to be delivered inside prison through this scheme are often concealed.

Such things are packed in a tennis ball or even a dead bird for the inmates to collect during their exercise period in the yard.

This move is very sloppy because packages thrown over the walls are often detained by the authorities or by rival gangs in prison.

4. Most Reliable Source, Prison Staff

Throughout history, we have heard many stories that the oldest and the most reliable route for the inmates is to use corrupted prison staff members.

The inmates have their way of corrupting prison staff. They usually tell them that they will get their share of everything sold — both ways, whether outside the bars or within.

They tend to corrupt staff members through a blackmail scheme, targeting inexperienced, weak, or young officers who seem easier to manipulate.

When any member of the staff gets themselves in a compromising situation which includes having an illicit relationship with an inmate, they automatically become vulnerable to pressure and blackmail.

This is the worst-case scenario for any prison. Finding these corrupt officers among themselves is very hard for the authorities.

Still, every year, few members of prison workers are taken to the court for misconduct, and some are jailed.

5. Use Of Technology To Deliver Contraband

Advancement in technology often makes things easier for humanity. Still, they also make things easier for criminals, and in recent years the use of drones has undeniably changed our lives and the lives of smugglers.

Moreover, there has been an increase in the use of drones in recent years, and smugglers have been using them to fly parcels over the prison walls and even to specific cell windows.

However, this method is hit or miss when you see the number of intercepted or crashed drones. Still, the Ministry of Justice took notice of this and unveiled a plan to take care of this problem and make sure that nothing like this happens again.

6. Concealing Drugs Internally

This is the most common practice and perhaps the oldest one, where a person hides capsules of drugs inside their body.

It is not only drugs that people hide inside their bodies, and people who know they will be sentenced by the court take it one step further.

They even hide mobile phones inside them or anything that they know they won’t be able to live without in prison.

As for drugs, they are often wrapped in cling or inside a condom to be taken orally or from the opposite side. This is a common practice because the prison staff cannot conduct any internal examinations.

Not much can be done to control this, but on the upside, the basic human anatomy only allows a limited amount of drugs to be smuggled inside.

Final Words

Law is there to keep people in check, and prisons hold the people who fail to comply.

The prison system has changed a lot throughout the years. Even the motto and in this modern era, authorities are approaching it differently, and it is no longer a place where people pay for the crimes they committed.

Still, it is about making these people better human beings and changing their way of thinking.

Hopefully, a day will come when the whole of humanity will be at peace, and no prisons will be required anymore — utopia.

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