The same day prison of­fi­cers spot­ted a man at­tempt­ing to throw con­tra­band items of­fi­cers found im­pro­vised weapons in the ceil­ing of the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC).

In a me­dia re­lease to­day the Prison Of­fi­cers As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) said the items were found around 10:45 am. While search­ing the Hope Di­vi­sion of the fa­cil­i­ty, six im­pro­vised weapons were dis­cov­ered con­cealed at the top of a cell.

"Im­pro­vised weapons pose a se­ri­ous threat with­in the cor­rec­tion­al en­vi­ron­ment, with the po­ten­tial to en­dan­ger the safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty of both in­mates and prison per­son­nel. Their de­tec­tion and re­moval re­main crit­i­cal to main­tain­ing or­der, re­duc­ing the risk of vi­o­lence and pre­serv­ing a safe and se­cure en­vi­ron­ment with­in cor­rec­tion­al fa­cil­i­ties," the re­lease stat­ed.