ATTICA – Corrections officers union officials are renewing their call for a Secure Vendor Program after more drugs were found at Attica Correctional Facility.
CAPE VINCENT â An inmate at Cape Vincent Correctional Facility was allegedly found to have what the corrections officersâ union describe as a weapon up his nose.
The New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association Inc. said in a prepared statement Monday that an officer conducting a contraband search of an inmate on Jan. 29 uncovered an item stuffed up the nostril of the inmate. The item turned out to be a piece of ceramic sharpened on one end and melted into a plastic cap.
The weapon was placed into evidence and the inmate was placed in a Special Housing Unit pending disciplinary charges. The inmate, who was not identified by the union, is serving an 18-year prison sentence imposed in Bronx County in 2007 for a second-degree attempted murder conviction.
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