Police are searching for an inmate who escaped from a minimum-security unit at the Collins Bay Institution in Kingston, Ont., shown here in 2016.
Police say an investigation into smuggling at a Kingston, Ont., correctional facility led to criminal charges against a correctional officer and an inmate earlier this month.Posted: Aug 27, 2024 4:25 PM EDT | Last Updated: 39 minutes ago
Kingston Police said in a news release on Tuesday that its intelligence unit joined investigators with Correctional Service Canada and Ontario Provincial Police last month. Last week, an unnamed 38-year-old correctional officer was arrested on the facility's grounds with drugs, knives and other contraband packaged for distribution, according to the news release.
That officer faces charges of mischief, specifically the type that puts someone's life in danger, breach of trust and possessing a controlled substance for the purposes of trafficking.
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