But even after the citation, and the arrest of the corrections officer and two of his inmate co-conspirators alleged to have been part of a smuggling ring, the contraband has kept getting in. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration cited FCI Miami for workplace violence on June 6, 2018, partly because the pervasive contraband was directly contributing to deteriorating safety conditions. Members of the ring used a smuggled phone to order a hit on the guard. The last federal corrections officer to be killed in the line duty was murdered in 2013, in part because he disrupted the operations of a contraband ring inside a federal facility in Puerto Rico, according to the Justice Department. The Federal Bureau of Prisons considers the contraband - especially the cellphones - to be dangerous. In less than 30 days last fall, corrections officers inside the prison found 54 cellphones, 47 amphetamine pills, 25 grams of an amphetamine infused leafy substance, two syringes filled with liquid amphetamine, one opiate-infused paper strip, at least nine cellphone chargers and one 11.5-inch, dagger-like shank fashioned from a piece of copper pipe.
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98–473 substituted provisions relating to providing or possessing contraband in prison, grading of offenses and definitions of “firearm” and “destructive device” for former provisions relating to traffic in contraband articles.Contraband detection: Effective strategies to stop the influx (eBook)Ī series of Federal Bureau of Prisons documents obtained by the South Florida Sun Sentinel detail the unusually high level of smuggled material. “(c) Definitions.-As used in this section, ‘firearm’ and ‘destructive device’ have the meaning given those terms, respectively, in 18 U.S.C. “(4) imprisonment for not more than six months, a fine of not more than $1,000, or both, if the object is any other object. “(3) imprisonment for not more than one year, a fine of not more than $5,000, or both, if the object is anything set forth in paragraph (1)(D) or (1)(E) and “(2) imprisonment for not more than five years, a fine of not more than $10,000, or both, if the object is anything set forth in paragraph (1)(B) or (1)(C) “(1) imprisonment for not more than ten years, a fine of not more than $25,000, or both, if the object is anything set forth in paragraph (1)(A) “(b) Grading.-An offense described in this section is punishable by. “(2) being an inmate of a Federal penal or correctional facility, he makes, possesses, procures, or otherwise provides himself with, or attempts to make, possess, procure, or otherwise provide himself with, anything described in paragraph (1). “(D) a controlled substance, other than a narcotic drug, as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act ( 21 U.S.C. “(C) a narcotic drug as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act ( 21 U.S.C. “(B) any other weapon or object that may be used as a weapon or as a means of facilitating escape “(1) he provides, or attempts to provide, to an inmate of a Federal penal or correctional facility. “(a) Offense.-A person commits an offense if, in violation of a statute, or a regulation, rule, or order issued pursuant thereto. Prior to amendment, section read as follows: 103–322, § 90101(4), inserted “methamphetamine, its salts, isomers, and salts of its isomers,” after “narcotic drug,”.
103–322, § 90101(3), inserted “marijuana or a controlled substance in schedule III, other than a controlled substance referred to in subparagraph (C) of this subsection,” before “ammunition,”. 103–322, § 90101(2), inserted before semicolon at end “or a controlled substance in schedule I or II, other than marijuana or a controlled substance referred to in subparagraph (C) of this subsection”. 103–322, § 90101(1), inserted at beginning “Any punishment imposed under subsection (b) for a violation of this section involving a controlled substance shall be consecutive to any other sentence imposed by any court for an offense involving such a controlled substance.”
(b) identically, substituting “(d)” for “(c)” wherever appearing in pars. 109–162 inserted “or any prison, institution, or facility in which persons are held in custody by direction of or pursuant to a contract or agreement with the Attorney General” after “penal facility”.ġ996-Subsec.