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Young prisoner, 21, dies after overdosing on meth after the drug was 'sneaked into the scandal-hit maximum security prison'
A prisoner has died in a maximum security prison after overdosing on meth.
The 21-year-old unnamed prisoner was found unconscious last Saturday in the State Management Unit at the Port Phillip Prison, west of Melbourne.
He was transferred to intensive care at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne, where he was pronounced dead four days later.
Prison sources told the Herald Sun that the drugs, also known as ice, were smuggled into the maximum security jail hidden in a large package.
A spokesman for Corrections Victoria confirmed the death in a statement to the Herald Sun: 'A 21-year-old prisoner from the privately operated Port Phillip Prison died in hospital on the evening of July 6.
'As with all deaths in custody, the matter has been referred to the Coroner, who will formally determine the cause of death.'
Investigations have begun to into security at the Port Phillip Prison as authorities determine how the drug was able to be concealed and pass various checkpoints.
Random searches of visitors and prisoners, scanners, X-ray machines and sniffer dogs are all used to prevent drug smuggling at Victoria's largest maximum security prison.
The death is now subject to a coronial inquest and Victoria Police investigating on behalf of the State Coroner.
It was revealed earlier this week that four prison officers at Port Philip Prison had been sacked for not having proper firearms licences.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...dies-overdosing-meth-Port-Phillip-Prison.html
A prisoner has died in a maximum security prison after overdosing on meth.
The 21-year-old unnamed prisoner was found unconscious last Saturday in the State Management Unit at the Port Phillip Prison, west of Melbourne.
He was transferred to intensive care at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne, where he was pronounced dead four days later.
Prison sources told the Herald Sun that the drugs, also known as ice, were smuggled into the maximum security jail hidden in a large package.
A spokesman for Corrections Victoria confirmed the death in a statement to the Herald Sun: 'A 21-year-old prisoner from the privately operated Port Phillip Prison died in hospital on the evening of July 6.
'As with all deaths in custody, the matter has been referred to the Coroner, who will formally determine the cause of death.'
Investigations have begun to into security at the Port Phillip Prison as authorities determine how the drug was able to be concealed and pass various checkpoints.
Random searches of visitors and prisoners, scanners, X-ray machines and sniffer dogs are all used to prevent drug smuggling at Victoria's largest maximum security prison.
The death is now subject to a coronial inquest and Victoria Police investigating on behalf of the State Coroner.
It was revealed earlier this week that four prison officers at Port Philip Prison had been sacked for not having proper firearms licences.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...dies-overdosing-meth-Port-Phillip-Prison.html