THE authorities at the New Amsterdam Prison on Saturday confiscated a quantity of marijuana, among other items said to have been thrown over the institution’s walls.
According to a statement attributed to Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels, at around 14:25hrs on Saturday, a rank on duty at the prison observed a package being thrown over the fence at the Berbice facility and quickly reported the incident to his superiors.

The statement goes on to say that prison officers, on retrieving the package, immediately reported the matter to the police, whereupon an investigation was launched.
The incident comes on the heels of a disturbance on Friday night at the Lusignan prison, where several improvised weapons were uncovered and handed over to the prison authorities.

The Guyana Prison Service has increased monitoring and security at the prisons, in the wake of last month’s prison break which resulted in the Georgetown Prison on Camp Street being gutted.

Earlier this year, the prison authorities reported that investigations had revealed that some prison officers have been colluding with inmates to smuggle illegal items into the confines of the prison.