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UK: Prisons do the write thing
Mark Cowan Evening Mail, Birmingham
Friday 20 Sep 2002 Jail bosses have banned felt-tip pens from Winson Green prison after smashing a new drug smuggling racket, it was revealed today. Dealers were packing cannabis into the hollow tubes of the pens after removing the felt containing the colouring ink. The scam was uncovered when prison drugs dogs sniffed out the drugs while searching through the mountain ofitemssent intothejail from the outside. Prison spokesman Tony Price said governors had now been forced to ban the colouring pens from the jail in a bid to keep inmates clean. Hundreds of pounds worth of contraband were uncovered. The audacious smuggling route is the latest method used by dealers tryingtosmuggledrugs into desperate jailbirds. Mr Price said: "People will try any means to smuggle drugs inside and the latest scam involved people jamming felt tip pens with cannabis. "The scam was uncovered when the drugs dogs found the scent ofthecannabis.As a result we have had to ban felt-tip pens from the prison." Specially trained sniffer dogs Becks and Ferdy were brought into the prison to help cut the availability of drugs inside. Their noses are so sensitive that they can pick out even the most minute whiff of a wide range of drugs, including heroin, cocaine and cannabis. And since they started earlier this year, they have uncovered smug-glers trying to sneak in heroin hidden under a postage stamp on a letter addressed to an inmate, and also cannabis secreted inside a tennis ball which had been thrown over the outer wall.
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