Corrections staff at Manitoba’s Stony Mountain Institution seized about $800,000 in contraband on Saturday morning, including cell phones, tobacco, and concentrated cannabis products.
Correctional Service Canada (CSC) said in a release Wednesday that Stony Mountain staff found two packages in the exercise yard of the prison’s maximum security unit.
The institution continues to investigate and police have been notified.
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