Search at Portlaoise Prison is widened

HashSlinging

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0509/prison.html

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Search teams have also found a large quantity of home-made alcohol, 150 tablets, including ecstasy, 30 syringes and a budgie.

monkeyfudge

Oh... I thought it had widened since the last time a thread had been posted about this to include random owl checks.

phantom_lord

HashSlinging wrote:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0509/prison.html

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Search teams have also found a large quantity of home-made alcohol, 150 tablets, including ecstasy, 30 syringes and a budgie.

lol

biko

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055090070

Haven't a Clue

A budgie? Right, how the hell would you get a budgie into the prison and how could you keep it in the prison without the officers noticing?

Mossy Monk

The IPS also says that new walk-through metal detectors and an X-ray scanner are being installed in Portlaoise prison and will be operational this week.

These security systems will be installed in all the country's closed prisons in the next few months.

I am surprised that this isn't standard already.

Dave!

I don't think a prisoner keeping a budgie is something I would be terribly concerned about. If it was a carrier pigeon then I might be a bit more concerned. That would also explain the ecstacy and syringes........

ruprect

Haven't a Clue wrote:

A budgie? Right, how the hell would you get a budgie into the prison and how could you keep it in the prison without the officers noticing?

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/ireland/article2525011.ece

This morning's reports say the budgie is believed to have been smuggled into the prison by a female visitor who concealed the bird internally in her body

Wonder when its christmas how big a turkey she can get in, live one that is!

HammerHeadGym

Haven't a Clue wrote:

A budgie? Right, how the hell would you get a budgie into the prison and how could you keep it in the prison without the officers noticing?

But far more importantly, why would you want to?

Dave!

HammerHeadGym wrote:

But far more importantly, why would you want to?

To keep you occupied? I'm sure prison is fairly boring, looking after a pet would make it slightly less boring.......

It's either that or take up heroin! lol

Red Alert

i hope they didn't kill the poor budgie

aidan_walsh

Red Alert wrote:

i hope they didn't kill the poor budgie

Its being held for questioning.

Degsy

aidan_walsh wrote:

Its being held for questioning.

True to the criminal code its beak is remaining tightly shut.

Dont be at yourself

True to the criminal code its beak is remaining tightly shut.

I'm sure it's singing like a bird!

timmywex

well, prisons are getting luxory here!! when the prison officers were on strike many moons ago, my dad who is a garda, had to work in shelton abbey open prison, according to him, its like a 3star hotel, they come and go as they please and get most things they want!!

InFront

DaveMcG wrote:

If it was a carrier pigeon then I might be a bit more concerned. That would also explain the ecstacy and syringes........

Needles and ecstasy... that would be one dangerous, full-on pigeon:D

Dave!

Drug abuse is a very serious problem among the pigeon community

Black Swan

timmywex wrote:

well, prisons are getting luxory here!! when the prison officers were on strike many moons ago, my dad who is a garda, had to work in shelton abbey open prison, according to him, its like a 3star hotel, they come and go as they please and get most things they want!!

Did he say if any of the cells had been decorated by Martha? Certainly that would have raised their ranking above 3 star?

Gobán Saor

Apparently the prison officers were just trilled to find the budgies:D

Judt

Haven't a Clue wrote:

A budgie? Right, how the hell would you get a budgie into the prison and how could you keep it in the prison without the officers noticing?

Who said they didn't?

Savman

Here was me thinking a "budgie" was some kinda new scummer slang for something in the drugs trade

Degsy

Savman wrote:

Here was me thinking a "budgie" was some kinda new scummer slang for something in the drugs trade

It is..its a bag of grass full of seeds!

Oriel

Talk about a bird in the bush.

Degsy

I wonder what WING of the prison they searched..

Dave!

Supposedly the prisoners are gonna stage a dirty protest if they don't get their sh*t (hehe) back within 3 weeks eww...

(can't find a link to it, someone else no doubt will)

According to the Indo this morning they are also smuggling in flat screen TV's :eek: wtf!!

Me have visions of lag's girlfriend visiting with a 26" plasma in her knickers and getting past security

Passport

Savman wrote:

Here was me thinking a "budgie" was some kinda new scummer slang for something in the drugs trade

No its a kind of bird.

Fratton Fred

Deleted User wrote:

According to the Indo this morning they are also smuggling in flat screen TV's :eek: wtf!!

Me have visions of lag's girlfriend visiting with a 26" plasma in her knickers and getting past security

Excuse me love, why are you carrying a 42" flat cake? oh it' for my husbands birthday

OK, as long as there isn't a file in it

burnedfaceman

Deleted User wrote:

According to the Indo this morning they are also smuggling in flat screen TV's :eek: wtf!!

Me have visions of lag's girlfriend visiting with a 26" plasma in her knickers and getting past security

what a complete joke the prison service security is to allow this to happen either officers are retarded or complicate in allowing this sort of stuff to go on, heads should roll!!!wtf i can understand how small items may be smuggled into prisons but a 26 inch tv, what a joke!

ntlbell

Haven't a Clue wrote:

and how could you keep it in the prison without the officers noticing?

What makes you think the "officers" don't notice?

where do you think they get half the stuff from?

Judt

ntlbell wrote:

What makes you think the "officers" don't notice?

where do you think they get half the stuff from?

And nitbell wins the prize.

Prison officers can do this for a number of reasons:
1. They're corrupt. Happens.
2. They want to maintain calm in the prison - let 'em have phones and you don't have to worry about a riot, or similar. You might just... That's why the minister was saying specifically that he's not giving tacit permission for them to turn a blind eye to this sort of thing.

If you're in prison then there should be no tolerance for committing further crime. So, for example, you riot because you're not allowed to break rules and have drugs, or mobile phones (etc), then I send in a squad of riot police with masks on (don't want to be identified, remember that's a big problem for prison officers) and smash heads off of toilet bowls. Still doesn't work totally, just look at the hardcore prisons they have in the USA, but I'd rather not see people already convicted of crimes get away with more on the inside.

old boy

usually in most countrys the head that rolls belongs to the minister, but in our bananna republic, wellllllll

Boggle

ntlbell wrote:

What makes you think the "officers" don't notice?

where do you think they get half the stuff from?

A friend of mine's brother is in Limerick Prison (her brothers a bit of a dangerous nutter tbh) and he was sold a mobile phone by the prison guards. Can't remember how much he paid but the prices read like a shopping list - sim card E100, old phone E250 and new phone E450 or something of that order.

These guards are already on seriously high money so they should all be given the sack and prison time if it can be proven...

Johnny Bitte

Boggle wrote:

These guards are already on seriously high money so they should all be given the sack and prison time if it can be proven...

Your a sack, as usually the prison officer on high money comes out.

Simple fact, if there was overtime in your job and you workd you earn.......extra money, well done.
So when a prison officer works massive amounts of over time he/she just gets
"paid seriously high money".

Secondly would anyone one here like to go in a **** hole everyday and watch the scum off Ireland???? Have them spit on you and abuse and in some cases threaten to kill you and your family.

Which brings me to the next way prisoners can get this stuff in and keep it.
Say for instance a prisoner comes to you and tells you that you lovely little daughter Sarah gets outta of your local school at 3 and if you dont get him something she ll disappear????? What would you do?

John Gilligan threatened two prisoner officer with such conviction that one has now left the country and the other has made his house into a fortress in fear all because they would not open the tuck shop especially for him on a Sunday.

The prisons are the way they are because the governement dictates that a prison has this right and that right and protects them more than the men and women who keep them from the public.

Instead they should get a bed a toilet and thats it.

I was told that the going rate in portlaoise from the prison gaurds for a mobile phone is €500. From a person I know that knows somone inside.

It was claimed that this prison was was supossed to be one of the most secure prisons in europe..

If this is true it is a major scandle